N'Ko bûn-jī

N'Kobûn-jī(N'Ko-gú[en]: ߒߞߏ) sīSolomana Kante[en]tī 1949-nî siat-kè êbûn-jī, sī Se-hui Mandé-gú ê hiān-tāi su-siá hē-thóng.N'Ko tsit-ê sû, ì-sù sī "guá teh sóo-ū ê Mandé gú-giân lāi-té kóng", mā iōng teh N'Ko bûn-jī pian-siá ê Mandé bûn-ha̍k piau-tsún. Tsit-ê bûn-jī kahAlápik bûn-jī[en]ū tsi̍t-kuá-á sio-kâng ê sóo-tsāi; ti̍k-pia̍t sī i-ê hong-hiòng (uì tsiànn-pîng kàu tò-pîng ê bûn-jī[en]) kah té-pōo liân-tsiap ê jī-bió. KahAlápik-gúbô kâng, pit-su tông-sî piau-kì siann-tiāu kah guân-im. N'Ko im-tiāu hông piau-kì tsiò piàn-im hû-hō, i-ê hong-sik luī-sū Alápik-gú lāi-té ê tsi̍t-kuá-á guân-im piau-kì.
Kante tshòng-kiàn N'Ko sī uī-tio̍h huê-ìng put tsûn-tsāi teh Hui-tsiu pún-thóo su-siá hē-thóng ê tshò-ngōo sìn-liām; pīng-tshiánn the̍h-kióng tsi̍t-tsióng koh-khah hó ê hong-sik lâi su-siá Mandé gú-giân. Tsia--ê gú-giân kui-ê sè-kí í-lâi tsú-iàu sú-iōng Ajami bûn-jī su-siá; tse pīng-bô uân-tsuân sik-ha̍p Mandé to̍k-iú ê gú-tiāu, iah-sī tsiânn-tsē Se-hui gú-giân kiōng-iú ê gú-tiāu. Teh N'Ko tsi-tshî tsiá tang-tiong liû-thuân tsiânn-khuah ê tsi̍t-ê kòo-sū sī: hit-sî Kante teh Bouake bô-tú-hó huat-hiān tsi̍t-ê leban tsok-ka ê tsi̍t-pún tsheh ê sî-tsūn; Kant i biān-lîm tio̍h tshòng-kiàn tsi̍t-ê to̍k-ti̍k hē-thóng ê ti̍k-pia̍t thiau-tsiàn; tsit-ê tsok-ka khin-sī kā Hui-tsiu gú-giân ting-tông "tō tshin-tshiūnn tsiáu-á ê gú-giân, bô-huat-tōo tsuán-lio̍k"sui-bóng mā kóng-tio̍h Ajami ê li̍k-sú.Kante teh Côte d'Ivoire Bingerville ê sî-tsūn ū siat-kè N'Ko, āu--lâi hông tshuā-kàu Kante ê tshut-senn tē Guinea Kankan.
Tī 1949-nî 4-gue̍h 14-ji̍t (tsit-má ê N'Ko jī-bió ji̍t) bûn-jī hông jīn-uî í-king tīng-kóê sî-tsūn, N'Kokhai-sí iōng teh tsiânn-tsē kàu-io̍k su-tsik; Kante kā tsong-kàu bûn-hiàn tsuan-lio̍k tsò kho-ha̍k hām tiat-ha̍k bûn-hiàn, sīm-tsì tsi̍t-pún jī-tián.Tsia--ê tsâi-liāu tsok-uî lé-bu̍t sàng hōo Se-hui kî-thann kóng Mandé-gú ê tē-khu. Tong-sî Guinea tī 1950 nî-tāi kah soo-liân kiàn-li̍p liân-hē ê sî-tsūn,tsit-khuán bûn-jī uì Tang-au siu--tio̍h tē-1 tâi phah-jī-ki.Tsit-tsióng bûn-jī ê ín-ji̍p ín-huat tsi̍t-tiûnn ūn-tōng; teh Se-hui ing-gú kok-ka hām huat-gú kok-ka kóng Mandé-gú ê jîn-kûn tang-tiong theh-ko N'Ko bûn-jī ê sik-jī-lu̍t. N'Ko sik-jī iú-tsōo teh sok-tsō Guinea ê Maninka bûn-huà jīn-tông; tsit-khuán jīn-tông mā ka-kiông Se-hui kî-thann tē-khu ê Mandé jīn-tông.
N'Ko ê bûn-jī sī uì tsiànn-pîng hiòng tò-pîng su-siá ê, jī-bió tsi-kan sī sio liân-suà ê.
N'Ko uses 7diacritical marks to denotetonalityandvowel length. Together with plain vowels, N'Ko distinguishes four tones: high, low, ascending, and descending; and two vowel lengths: long and short. Unmarked signs designate short, descending vowels.
N'Ko also provides a way of representing non-native sounds through the modification of its letters with diacritics.These letters are used in transliterated names and loanwords.
Two dotsabove a vowel, resembling a diaeresis or umlaut mark, represent a foreign vowel: u-two-dots for the French/y/sound, or e-two-dots for the French/ə/.
Diacritics are also placed above some consonant letters to cover sounds not found in Mandé, such as gb-dot for /g/; gb-line for /ɣ/; gb-two-dots for/k͡p/; f-dot for /v/; rr-dot for/ʁ/; etc.
With the increasing use of computers and the subsequent desire to provide universal access to information technology, the challenge arose of developing ways to use the N'Ko script on computers. From the 1990s onwards, there were efforts to develop fonts and even web content by adapting other software and fonts. ADOSword processor named Koma Kuda was developed by Prof. Baba Mamadi Diané fromCairo University.However the lack of intercompatibility inherent in such solutions was a block to further development.
There is also aN’ko version of Wikipediain existence since 26 November 2019, it contains 975 articles as of 16 August 2021, with 7,880 edits and 2,018 users.
N'Ko script was added to theUnicodeStandard in July 2006 with the release of version 5.0. Additional characters were added in 2018.
UNESCO's Programme Initiative B@bel supported preparing a proposal to encode N'Ko inUnicode. In 2004, the proposal, presented by three professors of N'Ko (Baba Mamadi Diané, Mamady Doumbouya, and Karamo Kaba Jammeh) working withMichael Everson, was approved for balloting by the ISO working group WG2. In 2006, N'Ko was approved for Unicode 5.0. The Unicode block for N'Ko is U+07C0–U+07FF: