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Encyclopedia > Gen language

Gen (also called Gẽ, Gen-Gbe, or Mina) is a Gbe language spoken in the southeast of Togo and in the Mono province of Benin. It is part of the Kwa sub-family of the major African Niger-Congo language family. Like the other Gbe languages, Gen is a tonal language. According to SIL/Ethnologue (http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=GEJ) there are 200 900 Mina-speakers in Togo and another 126 000 in Benin (total: 327 000).


References

  • Kangni, Atah-Ekoué (1989) La syntaxe du Gẽ: étude syntaxique dún parler Gbe: le Gẽ du Sud-Togo. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.

See also

External links

  • Mina/Gen-Gbe on Ethnologue.com (http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=GEJ)

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