African American Vernacular English (AAVE), also called Black English, Black Vernacular, or Black English Vernacular (BEV), is a type of lect (dialect , ethnolect and sociolect) of the American English language. It is known colloquially as Ebonics, Ebo, or Jive. With pronunciation that in some respects is common to that of Southern American English, the lect is spoken by many blacks in the United States. AAVE shares many characteristics with various Creole English dialects spoken ...

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• African American Vernacular English - History and social context
• African American Vernacular English - AAVE as a Creole
• African American Vernacular English - Educational issues
• African American Vernacular English - Grammatical features
• African American Vernacular English - Phonological features
• African American Vernacular English - Aspect marking
• African American Vernacular English - Negation
• African American Vernacular English - Lexical features
• African American Vernacular English - Other grammatical characteristics

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AAVE's development has its deepest roots in the trans-Atlantic African slave trade, but it also has features of English spoken in Great Britain and Ireland during the 16th and 17th centuries. Distinctive patterns of language usage among African slaves arose out of the need for multilingual populations of African captives to communicate among themselves and with their captors. During the Middle Passage, these captives (many already multi-lingual speakers of dialects of Wolof, Twi, Hausa, Yoruba, Dogon, Akan, Kimbundu, Bambara and other langua ...

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African American Vernacular English, African American Vernacular English - History and social context, African American Vernacular English - AAVE as a Creole, African American Vernacular English - Educational issues, African American Vernacular English - Grammatical features, African American Vernacular English - Phonological features, African American Vernacular English - Aspect marking, African American Vernacular English - Negation, African American Vernacular English - Lexical features, African American Vernacular English - Other grammatical characteristics

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AAVE's development has its deepest roots in the trans-Atlantic African slave trade, but also has features of English spoken in the British Isles during the 16th and 17th centuries. Distinctive patterns of language usage among African slaves and, later, blacks arose out of the need for multilingual populations of African captives to communicate among themselves and with their captors. During the Middle Passage, these captives (many already multi-lingual speakers of dialects of Wolof, Twi, Hausa, Yoruba, Dogon, Akan, Kimbundu, Bambara and othe ...

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African American Vernacular English, African American Vernacular English - History and social context, African American Vernacular English - AAVE as a Creole, African American Vernacular English - Educational issues, African American Vernacular English - Grammatical features, African American Vernacular English - Phonological features, African American Vernacular English - Aspect marking, African American Vernacular English - Negation, African American Vernacular English - Lexical features, African American Vernacular English - Other grammatical characteristics

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African American Vernacular English - Phonological features. Reduction of certain diphthong forms to monophthongs, in particular, [aɪ] to [a] and [ɔɪ] to [oː]. For example, "boy" pronounced as [boː]. Pronunciation of the dental ...

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African American Vernacular English, African American Vernacular English - History and social context, African American Vernacular English - AAVE as a Creole, African American Vernacular English - Educational issues, African American Vernacular English - Grammatical features, African American Vernacular English - Phonological features, African American Vernacular English - Aspect marking, African American Vernacular English - Negation, African American Vernacular English - Lexical features, African American Vernacular English - Other grammatical characteristics

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African American Vernacular English - Phonological features. Reduction of certain diphthong forms to monophthongs, in particular, [ɑɪ] to [ɑ] and [ɔɪ] to [o]. For example, "boy" pronounced as "boh". Pronunciation of the dental fricatives voiceless dental fricative See also:

African American Vernacular English, African American Vernacular English - History and social context, African American Vernacular English - AAVE as a Creole, African American Vernacular English - Educational issues, African American Vernacular English - Grammatical features, African American Vernacular English - Phonological features, African American Vernacular English - Aspect marking, African American Vernacular English - Negation, African American Vernacular English - Lexical features, African American Vernacular English - Other grammatical characteristics

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