NKo is a Unicode block containing characters for the Manding languages of West Africa, including Bamanan, Jula, Maninka, Mandinka, and a common literary language, Kangbe, also called NKo.
NKo became part of Unicode with version 5.0 in July 2006. With Unicode 11.0 in June 2018, three additional characters were added: a combining mark for abbreviated units of measure and two currency symbols.
The punctuation marks (⸜) and (⸝) were placed in the Supplemental Punctuation block.
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the NKo block:
| Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.0 | U+07C0..07FA | 59 | ||||
| N2765 | ||||||
| N2833 | ||||||
| N2898 | ||||||
| N2914 | ||||||
| doc) | ||||||
| N2949 | ||||||
| N2982 | ||||||
| doc) | ||||||
| N2977 | ||||||
| 11.0 | U+07FD..07FF | 3 | N4706 | |||