Fun Fact!

#1 The fact of the day has to do with the Ewe language, the language spoken in southeastern Ghana and southern Togo by over 3 million people! Ewe is a tonal language, meaning that pitch is very important in the meaning of a word. For example, in Ewe the following three words differ only in their tones:

• tó 'mountain' (High tone)
• tǒ 'mortar' (Rising tone)
• tò 'buffalo' (Low tone)

#2 Ewe is a national language in Ghana and Togo. 

#3 Ewe is a subject-verb-object language (just like English!). The possessive comes before the head noun (sound familiar?). Ewe uses postpositions rather than prepositions.