Tutnese
Sign in to saveAlso known as tūtyutūtinūnisūsi, tūtyutūt
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.
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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:
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