thumb|Gloria Mcilwain saying "Circle" in Tutnese (Southern Dialect) thumb|Gloria Mcilwain saying "Welcome" in Tutnese (Southern Dialect) thumb|Gloria Mcilwain saying "Bubbles" in Tutnese (Southern Dialect) Tutnese (also known as Tut) is an argot created by enslaved African Americans based on African-American Vernacular English as a method to covertly teach and learn spelling and reading.
thumb|Gloria Mcilwain saying "Circle" in Tutnese (Southern Dialect) thumb|Gloria Mcilwain saying "Welcome" in Tutnese (Southern Dialect) thumb|Gloria Mcilwain saying "Bubbles" in Tutnese (Southern Dialect) Tutnese (also known as Tut) is an argot created by enslaved African Americans based on African-American Vernacular English as a method to covertly teach and learn spelling and reading.
==Language rules== In Tutnese, vowels are pronounced normally, or pronounced as their letter name, but each consonant is replaced with a different syllable. The linguistics journal American Speech published the following table detailing syllables that replace consonants in Tutnese:
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).