The Anii is a Guan language (sometimes called Bassila or Baseca, also known as Oji-Ouji, Ouinji-Ouinji, Winji-Winji, though this is derogatory) is spoken in Benin, and central-eastern Togo and central eastern Ghana by Makכ-Makua or Bakכ-Bakua clan.
It is an interjection meaning roughly ‘do you hear?’, or ‘do you understand?’ Some of the older names have colonial or derogatory connotations and should no longer be used, and just be kept for reference.
[4] It also has a strong system of vowel harmony based on the feature [ATR] (Advanced Tongue Root).
[5] The Anii people are a diverse group with approximately eighteen villages along the border region of Benin and Togo.
[8] It is tonal with both a high and low tone, and uses a modification of the Latin script that includes symbols from the International Phonetic Alphabet.
See Deborah Morton's dissertation The temporal and Aspectual Semantics and Verbal Tonology of Gisida Anii.
Each dialect has a varied set of rules including its lexicon, phonology, syntax, and TAM semantics.
This has made it extremely difficult for linguists to document a unified set of grammatical rules for Anii.
There are two areas of nearly universal similarity between the dialects: the tone and pitch of the speaker and the influence of the lingua franca English and French.