Gen language

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Gen
Gɛn gbe
Spoken in	Togo, Benin
Total speakers	358,900
Language family	Niger-Congo Atlantic-Congo Volta-Niger Gbe Gen
Language codes
ISO 639-1	None
ISO 639-2
ISO 639-3	gej
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Gen (also called Gɛ̃ or Gɛn gbe) is a Gbe language spoken in the southeast of Togo in the Maritime Region. It is also spoken in the Mono Department of Benin. It is part of the Volta-Niger branch of the major African Niger-Congo language family. Like the other Gbe languages, Gen is a tonal language. According to SIL/Ethnologue there are 200,900 Mina-speakers in Togo and another 158,000 in Benin (total: 358,900).

[edit] References

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

[edit] External links

• Gen on Ethnologue.com

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