Bassa Vah, also known as simply vah ('throwing a sign' in Bassa) is an alphabetic script for writing the Bassa language of Liberia. It was invented by . Type was cast for it, and an association for its promotion was formed in Liberia in 1959. It is not used contemporarily and has been classified as a failed script. 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. Letters The Bassa Vah script is written from left to right. A fullstop/period is represented with 𖫵. Letters Tones Bassa Vah uses 5 diacritical marks to denote tonality of its vowels. It distinguishes five tones: high, low, mid, mid-rising, and falling. 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: References Coulmas (1999) The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems External links Omniglot.com Proof of some of the origins [www.yinda.de/bassa/script_history.html] Bassa language Writing systems of Africa Scripts with ISO 15924 four-letter codes