Bassa Vah, also known as simply Vah ('throwing a sign' in Bassa) is an alphabetic script for writing the Bassa language of Liberia. As an old system nearing extinction in the 1900s, it was rediscovered among Bassa in Brazil and the West Indies, then revived in Liberia, by Thomas Flo Lewis. Type was cast for it, and an association for its promotion was formed in Liberia in 1959. It is not used today and has been classified as a failed script.
Bassa Vah (Bass)
Other languages: bassa kiri (estonian), Vah-kirjaimisto (finnish), bassa (french)
Codes for the representation of names of scripts (ISO 15924)
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Published
Status
Label
Bassa Vah
English
bassa kiri
Vah-kirjaimisto
bassa
Alternative label
Bassa_Vah
English
Wikipedia (via Wikidata)
Code
Bass
Exact match
Web reference
ISO 15924 numeric code
259