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A script made to unify Manding.
Also known as: Nko alphabet, I say
The West African script invented in 1949 to write the Manding languages in a single alphabet.
Writes the Manding languages of West Africa in a single unified alphabet.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Invented by Solomana Kanté in 1949 in direct answer to published claims that African languages had no writing of their own and could not be written well — the script is an argument as much as a tool.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Written right to left, unlike the Latin and Arabic-derived orthographies it was designed to replace, which gives it an immediate visual identity on a page.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
A right-to-left alphabet of curved connected letters with tone and vowel marks written above and below the line.