The Literary Language
N'Ko is evolving as a standard language of several Manding or N'Ko languages. It is a literary language based on a compromise dialect, which Mandens from different sub-groups use to talk to each other. They switch from their own dialect to a conventional dialect known as N'Ko. N'Ko is also known as Kangbe – the clear language.
For example, the word for 'name' in Bamanan is tɔgɔ and in Maninka it is toh. In written communications each person will write it as tô in N’Ko, and yet read and pronounce it differently.
Read more about this topic: N'Ko Script
Famous quotes containing the words literary and/or language:
“I shall christen this style the Mandarin, since it is beloved by literary pundits, by those who would make the written word as unlike as possible to the spoken one. It is the style of all those writers whose tendency is to make their language convey more than they mean or more than they feel, it is the style of most artists and all humbugs.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)
“There’s language in her eye, her cheek, her lip,
Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out
At every joint and motive of her body.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)