black-english-vernacular








noun

  1. Black English(def 1). Abbreviation: BEV

noun

  1. Also called African American Vernacular English, African American English, Afro-American English, Black English Vernacular, Black Vernacular English. 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 English.
  2. any of a variety of dialects of English or English-based pidgins and creoles associated with and used by black people.
n.

English as spoken by African-Americans, by 1969.

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