NKo (Unicode block)
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Short description: Unicode block containing characters for the Manding languages of West Africa
Short description: Unicode character block
| NKo | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+07C0..U+07FF (64 code points) |
| Plane | BMP |
| Scripts | Nko |
| Major alphabets | Manden |
| Assigned | 62 code points |
| Unused | 2 reserved code points |
| Unicode version history | |
| 5.0 | 59 (+59) |
| 11.0 | 62 (+3) |
| Note: [1][2] | |
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. With Unicode 11.0 in June 2018, three additional characters were added: a combining mark for abbreviated units of measure and two currency symbols.
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the NKo block:
| Version | Final code points[lower-alpha 1] | 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 | ||||
| L2/04-283 | 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), 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), WG2 Consent Docket (Sophia Antipolis) | ||||
| L2/05-279 | Moore, Lisa (2005-11-10), UTC #105 Minutes | ||||
| N2953 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-02-16), 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), Recommendations to UTC #146 January 2016 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/16-004 | Moore, Lisa (2016-02-01), UTC #146 Minutes | ||||
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References
- ↑ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/ucd/. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
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