Gen language

Gen
Gen
Mina
Native to	Togo, Benin
Native speakers	(330,000 cited 1991–2006)
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Volta-Congo Kwa Gbe Gen; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	gej
Glottolog	genn1243

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

^ ^a ^b Gen at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

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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[e18-1] Gen at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

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