Bassa language
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The Bassa language is a Niger-Congo language (Kru languages).
It is spoken by about 347,600 people in Liberia and 5,000 in Sierra Leone by Bassa people.
It has a indigenous script, developed before 1907 by Dr. Thomas Narvin Lewis (c.1880-?) while he was studying at Syracuse University in the United States. The first primer was printed by Lyman Brothers circa 1907.[1] Dr. Lewis returned to Liberia where he began teaching his script to Bassa children. The script is described as one which, "like the system long in use among the Vai, consists of a series of phonetic characters standing for syllables."[2]
[edit] See too
- Bassa (Disambiguation page)
[edit] References
[edit] External Links
- Bassa, Ethnologue.
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