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  2. African-American Vernacular English - Wikipedia

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    Latin (English alphabet) American Braille: Language codes; ISO 639-3 – Glottolog: afri1276: This article contains IPA phonetic symbols. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters.

  3. African-American English - Wikipedia

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    The broad topic of the English language, in its diverse forms, as used by Black people in North America has various names, including Black American English or simply Black English. Also common is the somewhat controversial term Ebonics and, more recently in academic linguistics, African American Language ( AAL ).

  4. Latin influence in English - Wikipedia

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    The Germanic tribes who later gave rise to the English language traded and fought with the Latin speaking Roman Empire.Many words for common objects entered the vocabulary of these Germanic people from Latin even before the tribes reached Britain: anchor, butter, camp, cheese, chest, cook, copper, devil, dish, fork, gem, inch, kitchen, mile, mill, mint (coin), noon, pillow, pound (unit of ...

  5. Ebonics (word) - Wikipedia

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    Ebonics remained a little-known term until 1996. It does not appear in the 1989 second edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, nor was it adopted by linguists. [14] The term became widely known in the United States due to a controversy over a decision by the Oakland School Board to denote and recognize the primary language (or sociolect or ethnolect) of African-American youths attending ...

  6. Negro - Wikipedia

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    In the English language, the term negro (or sometimes negress for a female) is a term historically used to refer to people of Black African heritage. The term negro means the color black in Spanish and Portuguese (from Latin niger), where English took it from. [1]

  7. 20 iconic slang words from Black Twitter that shaped pop culture

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    The Guardian credits rap culture and Black vernacular language as early pioneers of the word, with A Tribe Called Quest releasing "Vibes and Stuff" in 1991 and Quincy Jones notably launching Vibe ...

  8. List of Latin abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    However, with some exceptions (for example, versus or modus operandi), most of the Latin referent words and phrases are perceived as foreign to English. In a few cases, English referents have replaced the original Latin ones (e.g., "rest in peace" for RIP and "postscript" for PS). Latin was once the universal academic language in Europe.

  9. Nigger - Wikipedia

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    Nero was considered a better translation of the English word black, while di colore is a loan translation of the English word colored. [99] Portuguese: Negro (as well as preto) is neutral; [100] [101] nevertheless preto can be offensive or at least "politically incorrect" and is almost never proudly used by Afro-Brazilians.