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Gbe language of Togo From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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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. Like the other Gbe languages, Gen is a tonal language. It was misidentified as the 'Arda' language isolate of South America.[2]

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History

The Gen language is spoken by the Gen-Mina people, who originated from Accra and Elmina in Ghana. The Mina from Elmina migrated because of the Denkyira wars of aggression, while the Gen [fr] came over from Accra after their defeat in the Akwamu wars. The two groups intermingled with the indigenous Ewe, resulting in their Ewe dialect having words borrowed from Fanti, Ga-Adangbe and various European languages.[citation needed]

The Gen language is mutually intelligible with Ewe and is considered to be one of the many dialects of Ewe.[citation needed]

There were 476,000 Gen-speakers in Togo in 2019, and 144,000 in Benin in 2021.[1]

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Phonology

Vowels

The vowels of Mina (Gen) are as follows:[3]

a ã e ɛ ẽ i ĩ o ɔ õ u ũ


Orthography

The orthography is defined in the Alphabet des langues nationales of Benin. In the 1990 edition, Gen shared its alphabet with Waci.[4] In the 2008 edition, Gen has its own alphabet (without F with hook ƒ).

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Nasalisation is indicated with a n after the vowel (an ɔn ɛn in un).

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