Posted on 08/17/2021 7:21:23 AM PDT by deport
Tut, a centuries-old forgotten language used by enslaved Black people, has found its way to social media.
In Tut, every letter in the English alphabet becomes a distinct sound. Tut, according to McIlwain's website, may have originated from the word "talk." It’s also been referred to as “Tutnese” and “King Tut.”
For a number of African Americans, learning Tut has built a connection to their ancestors and community. However, with the resurgence of Tut, some say the language should remain underground. When a user on Facebook shared the Tut alphabet, commenters called for the post to be taken down. “This should not be public. It’s for AFRICAN AMERICANS,” one commenter replied.
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Shameful
More garbage. The descent into savagery proceeds apace.
This is crap. Its not true. These people could not read. So they could not have a phonetic language based on English. Its possible that a very few people who were just starting to read could speak like this for a while. But a language, no! Somebody is revising history.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is what a racist sounds like.
Oh great! This is what we need right now. Another wedge in the American gut.
TikTok is for people who are to stupid to make it on YouTube?
Children.
I never heard of such a thing. Is this kind of like Yiddish for the Jewish population worldwide?
“In Tut, every letter in the English alphabet becomes a distinct sound.”
Well, that’s a real innovation right there.
Just looked up Tutnese on Wikipedia. Kind of cool, but not that impressive. Seems like anyone could learn it but you would have to be a decent speller.
Sorry, my AA friends, this is soon to be Culturally Appropriated. Deal.
Another way to divide us.
Bfl
Maybe someone can carve a tut/jive/ebonics Rosetta Stone?
I checked with Professor Wikipedia as well. It looks intriguing, similar in concept to Pig Latin. I used to have modest fluency in Pig Latin so I can understand how one could learn Tut. The Wikipedia article leaves the sociology questions dangling: how much of tut was a children’s game; how much a clandestine effort to disguise literacy when teaching slaves to read was a crime; and how widely was it actually used as a private language? Children’s word play on a Pig Latin level might well find other uses. I’d be interested in knowing how widespread it was. My guess is that the widest use would have been in situations where there were large, semi-autonomous slave populations as on very large plantations and in the coastal lowlands. In some instances, large slave gangs lived rather independently under the very loose oversight of overseers while absentee owners fled to healthier climes. A private language could easily take root.
Today it would be a colorful bit of cultural history. The idea of keeping it a secret is silly. I suppose some of the tik tok types think if white people learn it, they’ll be able to infiltrate Wakanda and steal the viburnum.
I don’t think they said it universally used. A “secret language” isn’t something people spoke in everyday life. For many slaves, it may just have come down to a few words used when secrecy was important, something like “Pig Latin.” Slaves who did secretly learn to read developed the code and then passed the words on to others. Maybe “secret code” is more accurate than “secret language,” but that doesn’t generate headlines.
pidgin is still in vogue at the BBC...
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