id: "Bass"
name: "Bassa Vah"
family: "African"
summary: "Bassa Vah is an African bicameral alphabet, written left-to-right. Used for the Bassa language spoken in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and by communities in Brazil and the Caribbean. Developed by Dr. Thomas Flo Lewis from a sign system used by the Bassa people to avoid slave traders, later suppressed by colonial powers, fell into disuse. Has 23 consonants, 7 vowels, and 5 tone diacritics."