[nkoo/nqo] Transcription of N'ko in "Usage" Section is Questionable

[donaldsoncd]

Comment on http://r12a.github.io/scripts/nkoo/

In the "Usage & history" section, N'ko (ߒߞߏ) is transcribed as [ŋko]:

As per my understanding of IPA conventions, that isn't quite correct. The letter ߒ is a syllabic nasal (which is rather unique and should be written n + the syllabic consonant diacritic [like this: n̩) and not a velar nasal consonant (e.g., ŋ).

[r12a]

I think you're right wrt the IPA transcription, but this transcription is in angled brackets, so it refers to a written form – in this case i should be using the Latin spelling for N'Ko. That said, this (very old) example was still using an incorrect transcription, so thanks for pointing it out. I now link to the term list to pull that example into the text, so i get the correct (I think) transcription and also the meaning. The new transcription now reads <ńko>.

The N'Ko orthography article is a little unusual in that i usually try to obtain a list of words with IPA transcriptions and meanings before starting the description, but i don't seem to have been able to do so for N'Ko. There is very little in Wiktionary, which is usually my first port of call for term lists. Coleman, if you know of any such lists of words for N'Ko, preferably with reliable IPA transcriptions, could you point me in that direction?

(Fwiw, i updated a few other things in the page, which seems to still contain a good deal of older template code.)