Gen language

Gen
	Mina
Native to	Togo, Benin
Native speakers	(330,000 cited 1991–2006)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Volta-Congo Volta–Niger Gbe Gen; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	gej
Glottolog	genn1243[2]

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. 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.

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)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Gen". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Gen". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.