African american english
(def 1).
abbreviation: aave.
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 pr-nunciations, syntactic structures, and vocabulary -ssociated 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.
any of a variety of dialects of english or english-based pidgins and creoles -ssociated with and used by black people.
n.
english as spoken by african-americans, by 1969.
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(def 1). abbreviation: aave.
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