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 |
History The Gen-Mina originated from Accra and Elmina in Ghana. The Mina from Elmina migrated because of the Denkyira wars of aggression while the Gen came over from Accra after their defeat in the Akwamu wars. The two groups intermingled with the Ewe resulting in their Ewe dialect having words borrowed from Fanti, Ga Dangme and various European languages.
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) (subscription required)
2 Felix Kuadugah- contributor
- 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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