Gen language

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Gen
Mina
Native toTogo, Benin
Native speakers
(330,000 cited 1991–2006)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3gej
Glottologgenn1243

Gen (also called Gɛ̃, Gɛn gbe, Gebe, Guin, Mina, Mina-Gen, and Popo) is a Gbe language spoken in the southeast of Togo in the Maritime Region. Like the other Gbe languages, Gen is a tonal language.

There were 200,000 Gen-speakers in Togo in 1991, and 130,000 in Benin in 2006.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Gen at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  • Kangni, Atah-Ekoué (1989) La syntaxe du Gẽ: étude syntaxique d'un parler Gbe: le Gẽ du Sud-Togo. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.


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