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NKo (Unicode block)

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Plane
  
BMP

Major alphabets
  
Manden

Unused
  
5 reserved code points

Scripts
  
Nko

Assigned
  
59 code points

Range
  
U+07C0..U+07FF (64 code points)

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 N'Ko.

N'Ko became part of Unicode with version 5.0 in July 2006.

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the NKo block:

References

NKo (Unicode block) Wikipedia