Black History : Tut, a Language Used by Enslaved Africans, Is Resurfacing on Social Media

[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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Tut, a Language Used by Enslaved Africans, Is Resurfacing on Social Media

Tut, a Language Used by Enslaved Africans, Is Resurfacing on Social Media

For many of us who grew up reading I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou for our 9th grade English class, we remember Angelou trying to learn Tut, a complicated language used by enslaved Africans, with her friend Louise while the other kids were learning Pig Latin.

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In a story for BBC, Nala H. Lee, a linguist at the National University of Singapore, says that when people judge contact languages, “People think of them as being less good or not real languages.” But in the last few months, Black Americans are ready to reclaim the voices of their ancestors one syllable at a time.

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Rachel Pilgrim

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