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Gen language

NameGen
NativenameMina
StatesTogo, Benin
Speakers330,000 (1991 � 2006)
FamilycolorNiger-Congo
Fam2Atlantic � Congo
Fam3Volta � Niger
Fam4Gbe
Iso3gej

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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.

According to SIL/Ethnologue, there are 200,000 Gen-speakers in Togo in 1991, and and 130,000 in Benin in 2006.




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