The N’Ko range was introduced with version 5.0.0 of the Unicode Standard, and is located in Plane 0, the Basic Multilingual Plane. You can see some Unicode N’Ko on Michael Everson’s N’Ko text in Unicode encoding page.
The N’Ko script was invented by Solomana Kante in 1949 for the Mande languages of West Africa, and is written from right to left. It is sometimes used for the Maninka language, for the Mandinka language (also known as Manding or Mandingo), for the Dyula language, and for the Bambara language.
The characters that appear in the “Character” columns of the following table depend on the browser that you are using, the fonts installed on your computer, and the browser options you have chosen that determine the fonts used to display particular character sets, encodings or languages.
You can find some or all of the characters in this range in the Windows Unicode fonts Code2000, DejaVu Sans, DejaVu Sans Condensed and Fixedsys Excelsior; and in the Macintosh OS X Unicode font Conakry.
To see exactly which characters are included in a particular font, you can use a utility such as Andrew West’s BabelMap, or WunderMoosen’s FontChecker.
If you are not familiar with the characters, you can check the characters displayed here with the graphical display at http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U07C0.pdf.
Character (decimal) | Decimal | Character (hex) | Hex | Name |
---|---|---|---|---|
߀ | 1984 | ߀ | 07C0 | NKO DIGIT ZERO |
߁ | 1985 | ߁ | 07C1 | NKO DIGIT ONE |
߂ | 1986 | ߂ | 07C2 | NKO DIGIT TWO |
߃ | 1987 | ߃ | 07C3 | NKO DIGIT THREE |
߄ | 1988 | ߄ | 07C4 | NKO DIGIT FOUR |
߅ | 1989 | ߅ | 07C5 | NKO DIGIT FIVE |
߆ | 1990 | ߆ | 07C6 | NKO DIGIT SIX |
߇ | 1991 | ߇ | 07C7 | NKO DIGIT SEVEN |
߈ | 1992 | ߈ | 07C8 | NKO DIGIT EIGHT |
߉ | 1993 | ߉ | 07C9 | NKO DIGIT NINE |
ߊ | 1994 | ߊ | 07CA | NKO LETTER A |
ߋ | 1995 | ߋ | 07CB | NKO LETTER EE |
ߌ | 1996 | ߌ | 07CC | NKO LETTER I |
ߍ | 1997 | ߍ | 07CD | NKO LETTER E |
ߎ | 1998 | ߎ | 07CE | NKO LETTER U |
ߏ | 1999 | ߏ | 07CF | NKO LETTER OO |
ߐ | 2000 | ߐ | 07D0 | NKO LETTER O |
ߑ | 2001 | ߑ | 07D1 | NKO LETTER DAGBASINNA |
ߒ | 2002 | ߒ | 07D2 | NKO LETTER N |
ߓ | 2003 | ߓ | 07D3 | NKO LETTER BA |
ߔ | 2004 | ߔ | 07D4 | NKO LETTER PA |
ߕ | 2005 | ߕ | 07D5 | NKO LETTER TA |
ߖ | 2006 | ߖ | 07D6 | NKO LETTER JA |
ߗ | 2007 | ߗ | 07D7 | NKO LETTER CHA |
ߘ | 2008 | ߘ | 07D8 | NKO LETTER DA |
ߙ | 2009 | ߙ | 07D9 | NKO LETTER RA |
ߚ | 2010 | ߚ | 07DA | NKO LETTER RRA |
ߛ | 2011 | ߛ | 07DB | NKO LETTER SA |
ߜ | 2012 | ߜ | 07DC | NKO LETTER GBA |
ߝ | 2013 | ߝ | 07DD | NKO LETTER FA |
ߞ | 2014 | ߞ | 07DE | NKO LETTER KA |
ߟ | 2015 | ߟ | 07DF | NKO LETTER LA |
ߠ | 2016 | ߠ | 07E0 | NKO LETTER NA WOLOSO |
ߡ | 2017 | ߡ | 07E1 | NKO LETTER MA |
ߢ | 2018 | ߢ | 07E2 | NKO LETTER NYA |
ߣ | 2019 | ߣ | 07E3 | NKO LETTER NA |
ߤ | 2020 | ߤ | 07E4 | NKO LETTER HA |
ߥ | 2021 | ߥ | 07E5 | NKO LETTER WA |
ߦ | 2022 | ߦ | 07E6 | NKO LETTER YA |
ߧ | 2023 | ߧ | 07E7 | NKO LETTER NYA WOLOSO |
ߨ | 2024 | ߨ | 07E8 | NKO LETTER JONA JA |
ߩ | 2025 | ߩ | 07E9 | NKO LETTER JONA CHA |
ߪ | 2026 | ߪ | 07EA | NKO LETTER JONA RA |
ߋ߫ | 2027 | ߋ߫ | 07EB | NKO COMBINING SHORT HIGH TONE (combined with ee (ߋ)) |
ߋ߬ | 2028 | ߋ߬ | 07EC | NKO COMBINING SHORT LOW TONE (combined with ee (ߋ)) |
ߋ߭ | 2029 | ߋ߭ | 07ED | NKO COMBINING SHORT RISING TONE (combined with ee (ߋ)) |
ߋ߮ | 2030 | ߋ߮ | 07EE | NKO COMBINING LONG DESCENDING TONE (combined with ee (ߋ)) |
ߋ߯ | 2031 | ߋ߯ | 07EF | NKO COMBINING LONG HIGH TONE (combined with ee (ߋ)) |
ߋ߰ | 2032 | ߋ߰ | 07F0 | NKO COMBINING LONG LOW TONE (combined with ee (ߋ)) |
ߋ߱ | 2033 | ߋ߱ | 07F1 | NKO COMBINING LONG RISING TONE (combined with ee (ߋ)) |
ߋ߲ | 2034 | ߋ߲ | 07F2 | NKO COMBINING NASALIZATION MARK (combined with ee (ߋ)) |
ߋ߳ | 2035 | ߋ߳ | 07F3 | NKO COMBINING DOUBLE DOT ABOVE (combined with ee (ߋ)) |
ߴ | 2036 | ߴ | 07F4 | NKO HIGH TONE APOSTROPHE |
ߵ | 2037 | ߵ | 07F5 | NKO LOW TONE APOSTROPHE |
߶ | 2038 | ߶ | 07F6 | NKO SYMBOL OO DENNEN |
߷ | 2039 | ߷ | 07F7 | NKO SYMBOL GBAKURUNEN |
߸ | 2040 | ߸ | 07F8 | NKO COMMA |
߹ | 2041 | ߹ | 07F9 | NKO EXCLAMATION MARK |
ߺ | 2042 | ߺ | 07FA | NKO LAJANYALAN |
Copyright © 2006–2011 Alan Wood
The hexadecimal numbers and the character names in the above table are taken from the Unicode 5.0.0 Character Database, Copyright © 1991–2006 Unicode, Inc., as contained in UnicodeData.txt on the Unicode Web site (http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/) in July 2006.
Created 19th July 2006 Last updated 16th October 2011