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ISO 15924
Nkoo
Family
African
Type
alphabet
Direction
RTL (right-to-left)
Baseline
bottom
Word separation
between words
Ligatures
unspecified
Status
Current
Unicode
true
Diacritics
true

The Nko script was created in 1949 by Soloman Kante to write the Bambara language, one of the Manding languages spoken in Mali, in response to a newspaper article reflecting the colonial misconception that Africans were culturally inferior due to their lack of indigenous writing systems. The word Nko means \\I say\" in all the Manding languages. Kante had travelled widely throughout West Africa