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Gen language

Index 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. [1]

9 relations: Atlantic–Congo languages, Benin, Gbe languages, Maritime Region, Mono Department, Niger–Congo languages, Togo, Tone (linguistics), Volta–Niger languages.

Atlantic–Congo languages

The Atlantic–Congo languages are a major division constituting the core of the Niger–Congo language family of Africa, characterised by the noun class systems typical of the family.

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Benin

Benin (Bénin), officially the Republic of Benin (République du Bénin) and formerly Dahomey, is a country in West Africa.

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Gbe languages

The Gbe languages (pronounced) form a cluster of about twenty related languages stretching across the area between eastern Ghana and western Nigeria.

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Maritime Region

Maritime is the southernmost of Togo's five regions, with the country's only shoreline on the Bight of Benin.

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Mono Department

Mono is one of the twelve departments of Benin.

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Niger–Congo languages

The Niger–Congo languages constitute one of the world's major language families and Africa's largest in terms of geographical area, number of speakers and number of distinct languages.

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Togo

Togo, officially the Togolese Republic (République Togolaise), is a sovereign state in West Africa bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north.

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Tone (linguistics)

Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning – that is, to distinguish or to inflect words.

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Volta–Niger languages

The Volta–Niger family of languages, also known as West Benue–Congo or East Kwa, is one of the branches of the Niger–Congo language family, with perhaps 50 million speakers.

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Redirects here:

Gen-Gbe language, ISO 639:gej, Mina language (Togo), Mina(Togo), Popo language.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gen_language

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