Tags: Ethnic Group.
The Bassa are a people of Liberia living in Grand Bassa Rivercess Margibi and Montserrado counties who speak the Bassa language a Kru language. They number about 350000 (as of 1991). They have their own writing system called Bassa or Vah which was developed around 1900[citation needed]. There are also about 5000 in Sierra Leone. They practice Christianity as well as indigenous religions.