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The Bassa language is a Kru language spoken by about 350000 people in Liberia and 5000 in Sierra Leone by Bassa people.It has an indigenous script Vah developed before 1907 by 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. Dr. Lewis returned to Liberia where he began teaching his script to Bassa children.