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Front Matter
N'Ko
Alphabet created in 1949 by Guinean linguist Solomana Kante for Manding languages.
Alphabet created in 1949 by Guinean linguist Solomana Kante for Manding languages. "N'Ko" means "I say" in Mandinka. Written right-to-left, it serves languages spoken by 35 million people across West Africa. Kante stated he created the script to refute the colonial-era prejudice that "Africa has no writing system."
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The Letters
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Reading Mechanics
Direction · Method↔
Direction
Right to Left (RTL)
오른쪽에서 왼쪽으로 표기.
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System
Alphabet
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Input method
Direct Unicode input
Keyboard layout
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The Lineage
Family · DescendantsPhylogeny
Descendants of hieroglyphs
Related scripts
Ancestors · Descendants · Family
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