Bassa Vah script
| Bassa Vah | |
|---|---|
| Direction | left-to-right  |
| ISO 15924 | |
| ISO 15924 | Bass, 259 , Bassa Vah |
| Unicode | |
Unicode alias | Bassa Vah |
Unicode range | U+16AD0 – U+16AFF[1] |
The Bassa vah alphabet.
Bassa Vah, also known as simply vah ('throwing a sign' in Bassa) is an alphabetic script for writing the Bassa language of Liberia.[citation needed] It was invented by Dr. Thomas Flo Lewis.[citation needed] Type was cast for it, and an association for its promotion was formed in Liberia in 1959.[citation needed] It is not used contemporarily and has been classified as a failed script.[2]
Vah is a true alphabet, with 23 consonant letters, 7 vowel letters, and 5 tone diacritics, which are placed inside the vowels. It also has its own marks for commas and periods.[citation needed]
Unicode[]
The Bassa Vah alphabet was added to the Unicode Standard in June 2014 with the release of version 7.0.
The Unicode block for the Bassa alphabet is U+16AD0–U+16AFF:
| Bassa Vah[1][2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) | ||||||||||||||||
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
| U+16ADx |
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