Gen (also called Gẽ, Gen-Gbe, or Mina) is a Gbe language spoken in the southeast of Togo and in the Mono province 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).

References

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

See also

• references at Gbe languages

External links

• Mina/Gen-Gbe on Ethnologue.com