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 Vernacular Black English African American English Black Vernacular Black Vernacular English indian indigenous native injun Esperanto Evenki Eskimo-Aleut ebullioscope

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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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