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Bassa uses two writing systems that reflect its cultural history and modern development. The native Bassa Vah script, created in the early 1900s and often credited to Dr. Thomas Flo Lewis, is an indigenous alphabet system with tone markings, preserving traditional identity and still used in cultural contexts. The Bassa Latin alphabet, developed in the 1960s by foreign Christian missionaries and their Liberian partners, adapts the Latin script with additional letters and diacritics to represent Bassa sounds and tones, and is now more widely used in education, publishing, and digital communication due to its accessibility.