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African-American English (or AAE; or Ebonics, also known as Black American English or simply Black English in American linguistics) is the set of English sociolects spoken by most Black people in the United States and many in Canada; [1] most commonly, it refers to a dialect continuum ranging from African-American Vernacular English to a more ...
African American English (AAE), a language variety that has also been identified at different times in dialectology and literary studies as Black English, black dialect, and Negro (nonstandard) English. Since the late 1980s, the term has been used ambiguously, sometimes with reference to only.
African-American Vernacular English[a] (AAVE) [b] is the variety of English natively spoken, particularly in urban communities, by most working - and middle-class African Americans and some Black Canadians. [4]
Funded in parts by grants from the Mellon Foundation and the Wagner Foundation, the Oxford Dictionary of African American English (ODAAE) is a landmark scholarly initiative to document the lexicon of African American English (AAE) in a dictionary based on historical principles.
An Informed Lens on African American English: By reconceptualizing our approach to African American English, we can avoid misidentification of speech-language disorders, steer students to services that truly benefit them, and sustain cultural-linguistic identity.
Take a close look at the rich history of Black English, or African American Vernacular English, and you'll see it's as complex as Standard American English. AAVE is unfairly stigmatized and sometimes labeled "bad English."
Today Ebonics is known as African American Vernacular English (AAVE). It is considered by academics to be a specific way of speaking within the larger categorization of African American English (AAE), or Black English.