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Bassa

Benue–Congo language of Liberia and Sierra Leone
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Summary

Bassa is a language[1]. Bassa ranks in the top 4% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (400 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: Liberia[3], Sierra Leone[4]
  • Instance of: modern language[5]
  • Subclass of: Kru[6]
  • Writing system: Bassa Vah[7], Latin alphabet[8], Latin script[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Bassa language[10]
  • Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 420,000[11]
  • Indigenous to: Bong County[12], Grand Bassa County[13], Margibi County[14], Montserrado County[15], River Cess County[16]
  • Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/BSQ[17]
  • Ethnologue language status: 5 Developing[18]

Why It Matters

Bassa has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] Bassa is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

Related Entities

Liberia Sierra Leone

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 7d ago · Ottawajin · 2026-10-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wolfram language entity code → Entity["Language", "Bassa"]
    Wikipedia languages → ['ast', 'ca', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fr', 'ha', 'hr', 'kv', 'ms', 'pl', 'pms', 'ru',
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Wolfram language entity code: Entity["Language", "Bassa"], Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/53943595|Bassa (#53943595)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/145"
  2. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → —
    Country → Liberia, Sierra Leone
    Instance of → —
    Indigenous to → Bong County, Grand Bassa County, Margibi County +2
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007284629705171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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