ebonics

Speech parts

1. ebonics - Noun

2. Ebonics - Proper noun

Meaning

a nonstandard form of American English characteristically spoken by African Americans in the United States

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

African American Vernacular English AAVE Black English African American English Black Vernacular English Black English Vernacular Black Vernacular indian etruscan indigenous native injun ebullioscope african american language african american dialect
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Hypernyms

american American English American language

Examples

Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And so English comes in a great many varieties, and black English is one of them. John McWhorter

A group of Black scholars coined the term AAVE, also known as Ebonics and originally called Nonstandard Negro English, in the 1970s. Source: Internet

Labov showed that in Philadelphia’s inner city, those speaking the roughest “Ebonics” were often reasoning more deeply than more educated, middle-class black neighbors. Source: Internet

The report goes on to cite other alleged incidents of Tranquilli using the Black urban dialect, known as Ebonics, from the bench. Source: Internet

Lucky you since I know nothing about Ebonics. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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