Waci language
{{Short description|Gbe language of Togo and Benin}}
{{About|the language|the radio station which formerly held the call sign WACI|WFPS}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Waci, Ouatchi
|nativename= Waci gbe
|speakers={{sigfig|921,600|2}}
|date=2019–2021
|ref=e26
|ref2=e18
|familycolor=Niger-Congo
|fam2=Atlantic–Congo
|fam3=Volta–Niger
|fam4=Gbe
|minority={{flag|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
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- {{cite book |last=Capo |first=Hounkpati B.C. |year=1988 |title=Renaissance du Gbe (réflexions critiques et constructives sur L'EVE, le FON, le GEN, l AJA, le GUN, etc.) |location=Hamburg |publisher=Helmut Buske Verlag |isbn=9783871188473 |oclc=19892995}}
Further reading
- {{cite thesis |last=Anson |first=G. M. |year=1972 |title=Description synchronique d'un parler Ewe: Le Watyi |publisher=Université de Nice |degree=PhD}}
- {{cite book |last=Capo |first=Hounkpati B. Christophe |year=1991 |title=A comparative phonology of Gbe |series=Publications in African languages and linguistics |volume=14 |publisher=Foris |doi=10.1515/9783110870534 |isbn=9783110133929}}
- {{cite journal |last=Capo |first=Hounkpatin B. C. |year=1980 |title=Un regroupement des parles gbe |journal=Africana Marburgensia |volume=13 |issue=1 |pages=2–23}}
- {{cite thesis |last=Capo |first=Hounkpati B. Christophe |year=1977 |title=Etude phonologique comparée du wacígbe et du gengbe |publisher=Université Nationale du Bénin |degree=MA}}
- {{cite report |last=Faton |first=Gabriele R. |year=2018 |title=Waci Speakers in Togo and Benin: A Sociolinguistic Survey |series=SIL Electronic Survey Reports |volume=2018-003 |url=https://www.sil.org/resources/publications/entry/74378}}
- {{cite book |last1=Lokossa |first1=Augustine A. |first2=Hounkpati B. Christophe |last2=Capo |year=1978 |title=Precis grammatical du Gengbe et du Wacigbe |location=Kome |publisher=Sous-Comm. des Langues Waci et Gen}}
- {{cite book |last=Manoukian |first=Madeline |year=1952 |title=The Ewe-speaking people of Togoland and the Gold Coast |series=Ethnographic survey of Africa, Western Africa |volume=6 |location=London |publisher=Oxford University Press for the International African Institute |oclc=3385440}}
- {{cite thesis |last=Sagbo |first=D. |year=1976 |title=La situation interlinguistique au Dahomey |publisher=Université de Nantes |degree=MA}}
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