Glottolog 5.1

Spoken L1 Language: Gen

Classification

▼Atlantic-Congo (1410)

Comments on subclassification

Angela Kluge 2011

Endangerment

AES status:: not endangered
Source:: David M. Eberhard and Gary F. Simons and Charles D. Fennig 2024
Comment:: Gen (gej-gej) = 3 (Wider communication). Originated in Ghana and Nigeria; became a major African language during the 16th–18th centuries with the expansion of the European slave trade.

Glottocode: genn1243
ISO 639-3: gej

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Alternative names

lexvo:: Gen [de]; Gen language [en]; Gena lingvo [eo]; Geneg [br]; Lingua gen [it]; Língua gen [pt]
multitree:: Ge; Gebe; Gen; Gen-Gbe; Guin; Mina; Mina-Gen; Popo

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References ⇫

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Name	Title	Year	Pages	Doctype	Provider

Bolé-Richard, Rémy 1983	Systématique phonologique et grammaticale d'un parler ewe: le gen-mina du sud-Togo et sud-Bénin	1983	336	grammar	eballiso2009, hh, langsci, weball
Kangni, Atah-Ekoué 1989	La syntaxe du Gẽ: étude d'un parler gbe (ewe), le ge du sud-Togo	1989	199	grammar	eballiso2009, hh, weball
Atsou, Kodjo Mawussé 1987	Zur Syntax des Ge: eine generative Studie	1987	150	grammar	mpieva
Houngues, Désiré Mensanh Komi 1999	Topics in the syntax of Mina	1999		grammar	eballiso2009
Gblem-Poidi, Honorine Massanvi 2017	J'apprends le Gengbe (Langue Kwa du Togo)	2017	314	grammar_sketch	hh
Johnson, Gabriel K. 1967	Anecho-Ewe/Ge-Mina: Mina Basic Course	1967	207	grammar_sketch	hh
Bedou-Jondoh, Edina Ayaba Elemawusi 1980	Some aspects of the predicate phrase in Gegbe	1980	176	grammar_sketch	eballiso2009, weball
Jondoh, Edina Ayaba Elemawussi 1980	Some aspects of the predicate phrase in Gegbe	1980	174	grammar_sketch	hh
Houngues, Desire Mensanh Komi 1997	Topics in the Syntax of Mina	1997	172	grammar_sketch	hh, mpieva, weball
Pazzi, Roberto 1981	Dictionnaire de la langue gen, avec grammaire et recueil de textes ancestraux	1981	332	dictionary, grammar_sketch	eballiso2009, hh, weball
de Barros, Philip and Leopold Ako 1969 [2006]	Grammaire Mina	2006	118	grammar_sketch	hh
Lewis, Marshall 1992	Verb serialization in Gen and the structure of events	1992	211	specific_feature, grammar_sketch	eballiso2009, hh, weball
Henrici, Ernst 1891	Lehrbuch der Ephe-Sprache (Ewe): Anlo-, Anecho- und Dahome-Mundart	1891	291	grammar_sketch	cldf, eballiso2009, hh, mpieva
de Gregorio, Giacomo 1901	Sulla struttura della lingua evé (ewe, ephe, epe) in base a proprie raccolte dal vivo: osservazioni glottologiche	1901	95	grammar_sketch	hh
Johannes Schröder 1936	Formenlehre des Gẽ-Dialektes der Ewesprache mit einer Einleitung über Laute und Töne	1936	83	grammar_sketch	hh
Pazzi, Roberto 1972	Notes de grammaire des langues aja, éwé, gen (mina)	1972	91	grammar_sketch	hh
Seidel, August 1902	Grammatische Elemente des Ane̱ho̱-Dialektes der Evhe-Sprache in Togo	1902	17	grammar_sketch	hh
Kodjo, M. A. 1987	Zur Syntax des Gɛ (Eine generative Studie)	1987		grammar_sketch	hh
Edorh, Victor Sandor Séanou 1982, 1990	Gẽ-deutsches Wörterbuch	1982	953	dictionary	hh
Michel Schuh 1910	Vocabulaire gengbe-français et français-gengbe	1910	146	dictionary	eballiso2009, hh
Edorh, Victor 1977	Ge-Deutsch Wörterbuch	1977		dictionary	eballiso2009, weball
Augustine A. Lokossa and Capo, Hounkpati B. Christophe 1978	Precis grammatical du Gengbe et du Wacigbe	1978	47	specific_feature	hh
Johnson, Gabriel Kwawovi 1965	Morphologie des nominaux dans la langue gê ou gêgbe (minapopo) du bas Togo	1965	11	specific_feature	eballiso2009, hh, weball
Mensah, B. 1991	Le système tonal du Gɛgbe	1991	143	phonology	hh
Capo, Hounkpati B. Christophe 1977	Etude phonologique comparée du wacígbe et du gengbe	1977	568	overview, comparative, phonology	eballiso2009, hh, weball
Lotven, Samson 2020	Sound system sketch of a Gengbe speaker from Batonou	2020	27	phonology	hh, langsci
Westermann, Diedrich 1931	Afrikanische Dialekte: Texte in der Gê-Mundart des Ewe	1931		text	eballiso2009
Luís Silveira 1944 [1741]	Obra nova de língua geral de Mina de António da Costa Peixoto	1741	36	wordlist	hh
Prietze, Rudolf 1897	Beiträge zur Erforschung von Sprache und Volksgeist in der Togo-Kolonie (Anecho)	1897	48	ethnographic, wordlist	hh
Commission Nationale de Linguistique du Togo 1983	Listes lexicales du Togo: Atlas et Etudes Sociolinguistique des Etats du Conseil de l'Entente (ASOL)	1983	439	wordlist	hh
Dalby, David and Paul Edward Hedley Hair 1968	A further note on the Mina vocabulary of 1479-80	1968	4	wordlist	eballiso2009, weball
Hazoume, Marc-Laurent 1990	Étude comparative des parlers Gbe du Sud-Bénin	1990	76	overview, minimal, comparative	hh
Capo, Hounkpatin C. 1980	Un regroupement des parles gbe	1980	22	overview, comparative	eballiso2009, hh, weball
Witte, P.Fr. Anton 1919/1920	Beiträge zur Ethnographie von Togo, Westafrika	1919	21	ethnographic, minimal	eballiso2009, hh
Capo, Hounkpati B. Christophe 1987	Renaissance du gbe (une langue de l'Afrique occidentals): réflexions critiques et constructives sur l'eve, le fon, le gen, l'aja, le gun	1987	256	socling	eballiso2009, hh, weball
Kluge, Angela 2007	The Gbe language continuum of West Africa: a synchronic typological approach to prioritizing in-depth sociolinguistic research on literature extensibility	2007	34	socling	eballiso2009, sil16
D. Sagbo 1976	La situation interlinguistique au Dahomey	1976		socling	hh
de Lavergne de Tressan, M. 1953	Inventaire Linguistique de l'Afrique Occidentale Française et du Togo	1953	236	overview	hh
Manoukian, Madeline 1952	The Ewe-speaking people of Togoland and the Gold Coast	1952	63	ethnographic	cldf, eballiso2009, hh
Duthie, A. S. and Vlaardingerbroek, R. K. 1981	Bibliography of Gbe (Ewe, Gen, Aja, Xwala, Fon, Gun, etc)	1981	229	bibliographical	hh
Abaglo, Poovi and Archangeli, Diana 1989	Language-particular underspecification: Gengbe /e/ and Yoruba /i/	1989	24		eballiso2009, langsci, weball
Pazzi, Roberto 1968	Culte de mort chez le peuple Mina, sud-Togo	1968	12		eballiso2009
Houngues, Désiré and John Priestley Hutchison 1999	Tense-aspect and serialization in Mínà	1999			eballiso2009, weball
Pazzi, Roberto 1985	Les proverbes du peuple Gen (Mina) au littoral Togo-Bénin	1985			eballiso2009, weball
Kuakuvi, Kuamwi Mawulé 1970	Le concept de personne chez les Ewe-Mina du sud Togo	1970			eballiso2009

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