African American Vernacular English

African American Vernacular English (AAVE), known colloquially as Ebonics, also called Black English, Black Vernacular or Black English Vernacular, is a type of Southern American English lect (dialect, ethnolect and sociolect) of American English. With pronunciation that in some respects is common to that of southern U.S. English, the lect is spoken by many blacks in the United States. AAVE shares many characteristics with various Creole English dialects spoken by blacks in much of the world. AAVE also has grammatical origins in, and pronunciation characteristics in common with, various West African languages.

Related Topics:
Southern American English - Lect - Dialect - Ethnolect - Sociolect - American English - United States - Creole

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American linguistics scholar Noam Chomsky relates that the reason this vernacular is so well researched is that the U.S. Government hired linguists to research what was called "black vernacular". The purpose of the study was to determine whether there was a correlation between speaking "black vernacular" and low test scores. No correlation was discovered.

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