{"id":6388,"date":"2011-12-14T12:56:56","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T12:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=6388"},"modified":"2011-12-14T12:56:56","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T12:56:56","slug":"txtng-n-nko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=6388","title":{"rendered":"Txtng n N&#8217;ko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an  interesting article in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/12\/11\/magazine\/everyone-speaks-text-message.html?_r=2&#038;scp=2&#038;sq=language+technology&#038;st=cse&#038;fb_source=message\">New York Times<\/a> about how it is now possible to send text messages and emails in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/nko.htm\">N&#8217;Ko<\/a>, an alphabet invented in 1949 to write Mande languages of Guinea, Mali and Ivory Coast. Thanks to various iPhone apps and other software use of this alphabet is increasing. It also helps that N&#8217;Ko is included in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unicode.org\/charts\/\">Unicode<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evertype.com\/fonts\/nko\/nko-unicode-text.html\">here are some examples<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>N&#8217;ko Unicode fonts are available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wazu.jp\/gallery\/Fonts_NKo.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evertype.com\/fonts\/nko\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an interesting article in the New York Times about how it is now possible to send text messages and emails in N&#8217;Ko, an alphabet invented in 1949 to write Mande languages of Guinea, Mali and Ivory Coast. Thanks to various iPhone apps and other software use of this alphabet is increasing. It also helps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,69,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-technology","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}