N'Ko

Script Details

N'Ko

Provided by Tapiwanashe S. Garikayi

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%27Ko_script

DISCLAIMER: This script is still being researched

Data

ISO 15924 Nkoo 165
Type Alphabet
Family Manding Mande Niger-Congo
Direction RTL
Diacritics Yes
Contextual Forms Yes
Capitals Used No
Glyphs 59
Inventor Soulemayne Kante
Earliest Location Mandekan, Ivory Coast
Earliest Date 1949 CE
Latest Date Present

Bibliography

Author Year Publication Publisher
Amselle, Jean-Loup 1996 Cahiers d'Études Africaines, Le N'Ko au Mali, 823 EHESS
Oyler, Dianne 1997 History in Africa, The N'ko Alphabet as a Vehicle of Indigenist Historiography, 239-256 Cambridge University Press
Singler, John 1996 The World's Writing Systems, Scripts of West Africa, 593 Oxford University Press