Bassa Vah alphabet
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:Contains special charactersBassa Vah, also known as simply Script error: No such module "Lang". ('throwing a sign' in Bassa) is an alphabetic script for writing the Bassa language of Liberia.[1] 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.[2] Type was cast for it, and an association for its promotion was formed in Liberia in 1959.[3] It is not used today and has been classified as a failed script.[4]
Letters
Vah is written from left to right. It is a true alphabet, with 23 consonant letters, seven vowels and five tone diacritics. A fullstop/period is represented with Template:Script/Bassa Vah.
Tones
Vah uses five diacritical marks to denote tonality of its vowels. It distinguishes five tones: high, low, mid, mid-rising, and falling.
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Unicode
Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote". Bassa Vah was added to the Unicode Standard in June 2014 with the release of version 7.0.
The Unicode block for Bassa Vah is U+16AD0–U+16AFF:
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References
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External links
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