Talk:N'Ko script

message: This reference states that Kante had, before creating N'Ko, tried writing the language in the Arabic and Latin scripts, but found them inadequate.  "Unfortunately none of those systems could satisfactorily capture the intricacies and the phonetics of Manden language."
Thinking about it, the Latin alphabet doesn't exactly capture the intricacies and the phonetics of English, but we still use it nonetheless.  But it does suggest that Kante wanted something strictly phonetic, and didn't like the idea of adding diacritics to an existing script.
But then again, none of the specific information here reveals anything that isn't straightforward to write in almost any alphabet.  Though it does state in the intro that it "obligatorily marks both tone and vowels".  So why is there no information here on how it marks tone?  (Even the Bambara version seems to be devoid of this information.)
Anyway, after some searching I finally found this.  I'll see if I can incorporate the info into the article when I've a bit more time.... — Smjg (talk) 21:45, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Sourcing

message: How are tones written? -- Beland (talk) 06:21, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Apparently w apostrophes, prob'ly taken from roman.  Maybe they weren't written originally? — kwami (talk) 05:34, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Tones

message: A source (in French) has been cited as telling about an imported slave who wrote with characters that have been confirmed as N'Ko by "Rodney Salnave". I found the French source telling about how Tamerlan wrote something in a script he knew from Africa. That is clear. But where is any documentation about "Rodney Salnave" confirming this? Did Salnave actually have the original sample written by Tamerlan? I am dubious. Does anybody have any data on this "Rodney Salnave", the "Haitian researcher"? Pete unseth (talk) 20:58, 23 August 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Rodney Salnave is this guy who runs a blog on how the Haitian revolution was not Islamic. Regardless of how good you think his arguments are I think, for wikipedia, we need a better source for a claim like this, so I've removed it until a better source is found. (Personally I'm not even convinced that the original account about Tamerlan writing is accurate. It reads rather like a novel, and it's a bit too convenient, though I think Salnave is right about the revolution not being particularly Islamic at all).115.188.172.237 (talk) 02:43, 18 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Did "Rodney Salnave" confirm a writing sample as being an example of N'Ko? 

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