African-American Vernacular English

Variety of American English

African-American Vernacular English (AAVE), sometimes controversially known as Ebonics, is the variety of English natively spoken by most working-class and middle-class Black Americans. This variety is also spoken among some Black Canadians. Having its own unique grammatical, vocabulary, and accent features, AAVE is employed by middle-class Black Americans as the more informal and casual end of a sociolinguistic continuum.

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