N’ko
PrintA language of Guinea
ISO 639-3
Population
No known L1 speakers in Guinea.
Location
Also in Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Gambia, Liberia, Mali, Senegal, Sierra Leone.
Language Status
3 (Wider communication).
Classification
Language Use
Second language only.
Language Development
N’ko is both a script devised in 1949 as a writing system for the Mande languages, and the name of the literary language written in the script.
Language Resources
Writing
N’Ko script.
A mixture of Mande languages: Bamanankan [bam], Eastern Maninkakan [emk], Jula [dyu], and Mandinka [mnk].