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alphabet Languages N'Ko Creator Solomana Kante Time period 1949
to the present ISO 15924 Nkoo, 165 Direction Right-to-left
Unicode alias NKo Unicode range U+07C0–U+07FF  N'Ko (ߒߞߏ) is
both a script devised by Solomana Kante in 1949 as a writing
system for the Manding languages of West Africa, and the name of
the literary language itself written in the script. The term
N'Ko means I say in all Manding languages.  The script has a few
similarities to the Arabic script, notably its direction (right-
to-left) and the connected letters. It obligatorily marks both
tone and vowels.   Kante created N'Ko in response to what he
felt were beliefs that Africans were a cultureless people, since
prior to this time no indigenous African writing system for his
language existed. N'Ko came first into use in Kankan, Guinea, as
a Maninka alphabet and was disseminated from there into other
Mande-speaking parts of West Afri