Gen language
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Gen (also called Gẽ or Gen-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 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 there are 200 900 Mina-speakers in Togo and another 126 000 in Benin (total: 327 000).
[edit] References
- Kangni, Atah-Ekoué (1989) La syntaxe du Gẽ: étude syntaxique dún parler Gbe: le Gẽ du Sud-Togo. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.
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