African American Vernacular English (AAVE)—also called African American English; less precisely Black English, Black Vernacular, Black English Vernacular (BEV), or Black Vernacular English (BVE)—is an African American Predominantly Protestant, some Catholics. Minorities practice Islam and other religions variety In sociolinguistics a variety, also called a lect, is a form of a language used by speakers of that language. This may include dialects, accents, registers, styles or other sociolinguistic variation, as well as the standard language variety itself. "Variety" avoids the terms language, which many people associate only with the standard (dialect The term dialect is used in two distinct ways, even by scholars of language. One usage refers to a variety of a language that is characteristic of a particular group of the language's speakers. The term is applied most often to regional speech patterns, but a dialect may also be defined by other factors, such as social class. A dialect that is, ethnolect Ethnolect is a variety of a language spoken by a certain ethnic/cultural subgroup and serves as a distinguishing mark of social identity. The term combines the concepts of an ethnic group and dialect and sociolect In linguistics, a sociolect is a social dialect spoken by a particular group, such as working-class or upper-class speech in the UK. Etymologically, sociolect derives from the morphemes “socio-” (social) and “-lect” (language variety)) of American English American English is a set of dialects of the English language used mostly in the United States. Approximately two thirds of native speakers of English live in the United States. Non-linguists sometimes call it Ebonics Ebonics is a term that was originally intended and sometimes used for the language of all people of African ancestry, or for that of Black North American people; since 1996 it has been largely used to refer to African American Vernacular English , asserting the independence of this from (standard) English. The term became widely known in the U.S (a term that also has other meanings or strong connotations) or jive or jive-talk. Its pronunciation "Pronunciation" refers to the way a word or a language is spoken, or the manner in which someone utters a word. If someone is said to have "correct pronunciation," then it refers to both within a particular dialect is, in some respects, common to Southern American English Southern American English is a group of dialects of the English language spoken throughout the Southern region of the United States, from Southern and Eastern Maryland, West Virginia and Kentucky to the Gulf Coast, and from the Atlantic coast to throughout most of Texas and Oklahoma, which is spoken by many African Americans and many non-African Americans in the United States. There is little regional variation among speakers of AAVE.[1] Several creolists, including William Stewart, John Dillard, and John Rickford John Russell Rickford is the Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor at Stanford University's Department of Linguistics, where he has taught since 1980. He earned his BA at UC Santa Cruz and his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses primarily on language variation, a type of quantitative sociolinguistics. His specialty, argue that AAVE shares so many characteristics with creole A creole language, or simply a creole, is a stable language that originated from a mixture of various languages. The vocabulary of a creole language consists of cognates from the parent languages, though there are often clear phonetic and semantic shifts. On the other hand, the grammar often has original features but may differ substantially from dialects spoken by black people in much of the world that AAVE itself is a creole, while others maintain that there are no significant parallels.[2][3][4][5][6][7] As with all linguistic forms, its usage is influenced by age, status, topic and setting. There are many literary uses of this variety of English, particularly in African-American literature African-American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. The genre traces its origins to the works of such late 18th century writers as Phillis Wheatley and Olaudah Equiano, reaching early high points with slave narratives and the Harlem Renaissance, and continuing today with authors such.
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