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A script recovered from the diaspora.
The script used for the Bassa language of Liberia, promoted in the early twentieth century.
Writes Bassa with tone marked by dots placed within the vowel letters.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Placed its tone marks inside the letters rather than above them, which keeps the line of text an even height and avoids the ascender collisions that plague diacritic-heavy orthographies.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
An alphabet of about thirty letters with tone marked by dots placed inside the vowel letters rather than above them.
A fuller structured visual breakdown is not yet documented for this symbol.