Gen language
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.
| Gen | |
|---|---|
| Mina | |
| Native to | Togo, Benin |
Native speakers | (330,000 cited 1991–2006)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | gej |
| Glottolog | genn1243 |
There were 200,000 Gen-speakers in Togo in 1991, and 130,000 in Benin in 2006.[1]
References
- 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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