NKo is a Unicode block containing characters for the Manding languages of West Africa, including Bamanan, Jula, Maninka, Mandinka, and a common literary language, Kangbe, also called NKo.
NKo became part of Unicode with version 5.0 in July 2006. With Unicode 11.0 in June 2018, three additional characters were added: a combining mark for abbreviated units of measure and two currency symbols.
| NKo[1][2]Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) | ||||||||||||||||
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
| U+07Cx | ߀ | ߁ | ߂ | ߃ | ߄ | ߅ | ߆ | ߇ | ߈ | ߉ | ߊ | ߋ | ߌ | ߍ | ߎ | ߏ |
| U+07Dx | ߐ | ߑ | ߒ | ߓ | ߔ | ߕ | ߖ | ߗ | ߘ | ߙ | ߚ | ߛ | ߜ | ߝ | ߞ | ߟ |
| U+07Ex | ߠ | ߡ | ߢ | ߣ | ߤ | ߥ | ߦ | ߧ | ߨ | ߩ | ߪ | ߫ | ߬ | ߭ | ߮ | ߯ |
| U+07Fx | ߰ | ߱ | ߲ | ߳ | ߴ | ߵ | ߶ | ߷ | ߸ | ߹ | ߺ | ߽ | ߾ | ߿ | ||
| Notes1.^ As of Unicode version 16.02.^ Grey areas indicate non-assigned code points | ||||||||||||||||
The punctuation marks ⟨⸜⟩ and ⟨⸝⟩ were placed in the Supplemental Punctuation block.
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History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the NKo block:
| Version | Final code points1 | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.0 | U+07C0..07FA | 59 | L2/03-265 | Anderson, Deborah (2003-08-17), Letters in support of encoding N'Ko | |
| L2/03-414 | Three letters in support of N'ko encoding, 2003-11-01 | ||||
| L2/04-172 | N2765 | Everson, Michael; Doumbouya, Mamady; Diané, Baba Mamadi; Jammeh, Karamo Kaba (2004-06-08), Proposal to add the N'Ko script to the BMP of the UCS | |||
| L2/04-283 | N2833 | Everson, Michael (2004-06-23), Revisions to the N'Ko script for the PDAM code chart | |||
| L2/05-006 | N2898 | Doumbouya, Mamady (2005-01-11), Re: N'Ko Proposal in Amendment 2 | |||
| L2/05-010 | Yergeau, François; Andries, Patrick (2005-01-20), Re: N'Ko Proposal in Amendment 2 | ||||
| L2/05-017 | N2914 | Doumbouya, Mamady (2005-01-21), Documents showing old and new N'Ko letters | |||
| N2932 (htm, doc) | Doumbouya, Mamady (2005-03-12), Encoding of N'Ko in ISO/IEC 10646 | ||||
| L2/05-026 | Moore, Lisa (2005-05-16), "Consensus 102-C1", UTC #102 Minutes, Use the block and long script name "NKo" (without apostrophe) as the name for N'Ko. | ||||
| L2/05-169 | N2949 | Yergeau, François; Andries, Patrick (2005-07-12), For a Correct Encoding of N'ko | |||
| L2/05-248 | N2982 | Yergeau, François; Andries, Patrick (2005-09-04), Comments on 2977 (Alleged parallel between 3 N'Ko Glyphs & Latin Long S) | |||
| L2/05-270 | Whistler, Ken (2005-09-21), "E. N'Ko Name Changes", WG2 Consent Docket (Sophia Antipolis) | ||||
| L2/05-279 | Moore, Lisa (2005-11-10), "Consensus 105-C29", UTC #105 Minutes | ||||
| N2953 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-02-16), "7.2.2", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 47, Sophia Antipolis, France; 2005-09-12/15 | ||||
| L2/05-237 | N2977 | Everson, Michael; Doumbouya, Mamady; Diané, Baba Mamadi; Jammeh, Karamo Kaba (2008-08-26), Clarification on the identity and use of three N'Ko letters | |||
| 11.0 | U+07FD..07FF | 3 | L2/15-338 | N4706 | Everson, Michael (2015-12-19), Proposal to encode four N'Ko characters in the BMP of the UCS |
| L2/16-037 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu (2016-01-22), "11", Recommendations to UTC #146 January 2016 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/16-004 | Moore, Lisa (2016-02-01), "C.8", UTC #146 Minutes | ||||
References
Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names ↩