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African American Vernacular English

[ af-ri-kuhn uh-mer-i-kuhn ver-nak-yuh-ler ing-glish ]

noun

  1. a dialect of American English characterized by pronunciations, syntactic structures, and vocabulary associated with and used by some North American Black people and exhibiting a wide variety and range of forms varying in the extent to which they differ from Standard American English. : AAVE

African-American Vernacular English

noun

  1. a dialect of English typically spoken by working-class African-Americans AAVE Also calledebonics

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Word History and Origins

Origin of African American Vernacular English1

First recorded in 1990–95

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