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African American Vernacular English
African American Vernacular English
(
AAVE
)—also called
African American English
(
AAE
); less precisely
Black English
,
Black Vernacular
,
Black English Vernacular
(
BEV
), or
Black Vernacular English
(
BVE
)—is a
variety
(
dialect
,
ethnolect
and
sociolect
) of
American English
, most commonly spoken today by urban
working-class
and largely
middle-class
African Americans
. Non-linguists often call it
Ebonics
(a term that also has
other meanings and connotations
).
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