Waci language explained

Waci, Ouatchi
Nativename:	Waci gbe
States:	Togo, Benin
Region:	Maritime, Mono
Date:	2019–2021
Ref:	e26
Ref2:	e18
Familycolor:	Niger-Congo
Fam2:	Atlantic–Congo
Fam3:	Volta–Niger
Fam4:	Gbe
Minority:	Benin
Iso3:	wci
Glotto:	waci1239
Glottorefname:	Waci Gbe
Script:	Latin script

Waci (also spelled Ouatchi) is a Gbe language of Togo and Benin. It is part of a dialect continuum which also includes Ewe and Mina also known as Gɛn. It is scattered in an area Capo designates as Ewe speaking.

References

• Book: Capo, Hounkpati B.C. . 1988 . Renaissance du Gbe (réflexions critiques et constructives sur L'EVE, le FON, le GEN, l AJA, le GUN, etc.) . Hamburg . Helmut Buske Verlag . 9783871188473 . 19892995.

Further reading

• Anson . G. M. . 1972 . Description synchronique d'un parler Ewe: Le Watyi . Université de Nice . PhD.
• Book: Capo, Hounkpati B. Christophe . 1991 . A comparative phonology of Gbe . Publications in African languages and linguistics . 14 . Foris . 10.1515/9783110870534 . 9783110133929.
• Capo . Hounkpatin B. C. . 1980 . Un regroupement des parles gbe . Africana Marburgensia . 13 . 1 . 2–23.
• Capo . Hounkpati B. Christophe . 1977 . Etude phonologique comparée du wacígbe et du gengbe . Université Nationale du Bénin . MA.
• Faton . Gabriele R. . 2018 . Waci Speakers in Togo and Benin: A Sociolinguistic Survey . SIL Electronic Survey Reports . 2018-003 .
• Book: Lokossa . Augustine A. . Hounkpati B. Christophe . Capo . 1978 . Precis grammatical du Gengbe et du Wacigbe . Kome . Sous-Comm. des Langues Waci et Gen.
• Book: Manoukian, Madeline . 1952 . The Ewe-speaking people of Togoland and the Gold Coast . Ethnographic survey of Africa, Western Africa . 6 . London . Oxford University Press for the International African Institute . 3385440.
• Sagbo . D. . 1976 . La situation interlinguistique au Dahomey . Université de Nantes . MA.