Musicbee for dummies9/5/2023 In 1969 I was told by my aunt that her father (who could read and write English) had referred to TUT Language as a disguised language that could have got him killed thus, as a grown man he refused to speak it. So, it may have been those alphabet sounds that were memorized and, with a few additions, called TUT Language. She told me that perhaps some slaves made a language game from the sounds they heard repeated by the owners children who were being taught to read. ![]() My mother told me she had learned TUT Language from her mother, who said it was a method devised by some African slaves in America to teach each other to spell therefore, to read at a time when reading by slaves was against the law, and the punishment, if they were caught, was severe. She taught me to speak the sounds hello (the word square is said before a double letter). (See table 1.) She said if I could figure it out, she would help me learn TUT. She spoke the sounds, then told me to sound the consonants and speak the vowel. Later, when I asked my mother about the sounds, she told me that what they had been speaking was called TUT Language. ![]() While they were talking, I could hear recognizable sounds, but not words. My introduction to TUT Language began when I happened to be the only child at home on a day that my mothers sister came to visit. TUT LANGUAGE (the Phonetic Symbols below used only for this article)
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