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NKo | Jamaican Patois | |
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Family | Mande | Creole, English-based |
Speakers | Primarily used as a written language for various Mande languages, such as Maninka, Bambara, and Dyula | Approximately 4 million |
Features | A unifying script for Mande languages, written from right to left; designed to provide a standardized orthography for languages in the Mande family | A creole language derived from English, West African languages, and influences from Spanish and Portuguese; characterized by simplified grammar, phonetic spelling, and a rich oral tradition. |
Countries | Guinea, Mali, Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal, and neighboring West African countries | Jamaica (primary), and Jamaican diaspora communities in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada |
Writing System | N’Ko script | Latin script |
Tonal | Yes, tones are marked with diacritical marks | No |
Grammatical Cases | No, uses word order and particles instead | No, uses simplified grammar and word order |
Derived From | 17th-century English, with significant contributions from West African languages | |
Loanwords | Varies by Mande language, often from Arabic and French | From West African languages, Spanish, and English |
Dialects | Used to transcribe multiple Mande languages, so there are no inherent dialects within N’Ko itself | Includes slight regional variations across Jamaica, but generally mutually intelligible. Influences from urban versus rural areas can be observed. |
Alphabets | ߊ, ߋ, ߌ, ߍ, ߎ, ߏ, ߐ, ߑ, ߒ, ߓ, ߔ, ߕ, ߖ, ߗ, ߘ, ߙ, ߚ, ߛ, ߜ, ߝ, ߞ, ߟ, ߠ, ߡ, ߢ, ߣ, ߤ, ߥ, ߦ | A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z |
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