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	Bassa Dictionary In the late 1800s a young Bassa man went to study medicine at Syracuse University in the US. When Dr. Thomas Flo Narvin Lewis returned to Liberia in 1910, he brought, besides a medical degree, a Bassa alphabet he had developed. This was one of five indigenous scripts in Liberia. A more recent script is used for the Bassa Bible. Here are some Bassa fonts: Doulos (similar to Times Roman) Doulos bold Doulos italic Doulos bold italic Sophia (similar to Arial) Sophia bold Sophia italic Sophia bold italic If you download and install these fonts you can read documents that have been written in Bassa. Here is a Word document with instructions on installing the fonts and a sample document to see if you installed them correctly. (To write Bassa you need a keyboard conversion program. A shareware version, Tavultesoft, can be purchased for about $20 US. For more information, see also SIL's site.) The Bassa translation team developed a word list while they worked on the translation. Our thanks to the Translation team: Don Slager Seokin Payne Robert Glaygbo Tim Meece William Boen Congratulations for your persistence and dedication, which have led to the completion and publication of the entire Bassa Bible! Contact: tim_slager@yahoo.com 234 Griswold SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49507 18 June 2008