Bassa Vah, also known as simply Vah ('throwing a sign' in Bassa) is an alphabetic script for writing the Bassa language of Liberia.[2] 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.[3]Type was cast for it, and an association for its promotion was formed in Liberia in 1959.[1] It is not used today and has been classified as a failed script.[4]
Vah is written from left to right. It is a true alphabet, with 23 consonant letters, 7 vowel letters and 5 tone diacritics, which are placed inside the vowels. A fullstop/period is represented with 𖫵.
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Bassa Vah
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Bassa Vah
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Bassa Vah
[a]
A/a
𖫧
[g]
G/g
𖫖
[ɔ]
Ɔ/ɔ
𖫨
[b]
B/b
𖫢
[ɡ͡b]
Gb/gb
𖫝
[o]
O/o
𖫩
[ɓ]/[mᵇ]
Ɓ/ɓ
𖫔
[ŋ͡m]
Gm/gm
𖫔
[p]
P/p
𖫥
[c]
C/c
𖫟
[h]
H/h
𖫤
[s]
S/s
𖫒
[d]
D/d
𖫗
[hʷ]
Hw/hw
𖫠
[t]
T/t
𖫡
[ɖ]/[ɺ]
Đ/ɖ
𖫦
[i]
I/i
𖫭
[u]
U/u
𖫪
[dʲ]/[ɲ]
Dy/dy
𖫕
[ɟ]
J/j
𖫙
[v]
V/v
𖫣
[e]
E/e
𖫫
[k]
K/k
𖫑
[w]
W/w
𖫛
[ɛ]
Ɛ/ɛ
𖫬
[k͡p]
Kp/kp
𖫘
[xʷ]/[ħʷ]
Xw/xw
𖫚
[f]
F/f
𖫓
[n]
N/n
𖫐
[z]
Z/z
𖫜
Tonesedit
Vah uses 5 diacritical marks to denote tonality of its vowels. It distinguishes five tones: high, low, mid, mid-rising, and falling.
^ abEverson, Michael; Riley, Charles (2010). "Final proposal for encoding the Bassa Vah script in the SMP of the UCS" (PDF).
^Coulmas, Florian, ed. (1999). "Bassa alphabet". The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley. p. 39. doi:10.1002/9781118932667.ch2. ISBN9780631214816.
^. Bassa Vah Association. Archived from the original on 2007-02-22.
^Unseth, Peter (2011). "Invention of Scripts in West Africa for Ethnic Revitalization". In Joshua A. Fishman; Ofelia García (eds.). Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity: The Success-Failure Continuum in Language and Ethnic Identity Efforts. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 23–32. ISBN9780199837991.
From the Bassa Vah Association (all links archived):
December 15, 2023
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