Black English

English

Proper noun

Black English

1. Any of several varieties of English spoken by or associated with Black people, especially people of African origin or in Africa.
   • 1977, David Ola Oke, “The genesis of New World Black English”, in Caribbean Quarterly, volume 23, page 65:

     Sranan-Tongo is a New World Black language form produced by the same processes that gave rise to Afro-American and Afro-Caribbean Black English.

   • 1997, Rajend Mesthrie, “A sociolinguistic study of topicalisation phenomena in South African Black English”, in Manfred Görlach, Edgar W. Schneider, editors, Englishes Around the World, volume 2, page 119:

     There is little doubt that an African variety of English is very much part of the communicative economy of the new South Africa (for which I shall use the conventional label South African Black English, in short SABE).

   1. (US) Synonym of African-American English (“AAE”), sometimes specifically African-American Vernacular English (“AAVE”).
      • 2021 November 16, John McWhorter, “‘Woke’ Went the Way of ‘P.C.’ and ‘Liberal’”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

        Perhaps Black English will yield a new neutral term for wokeness.

   2. (UK) Synonym of Multicultural London English (“MLE”)
   3. (Canada) Synonym of Greater Toronto English (“MTE”)

See also

• blaccent
• Black British
• Black English Vernacular
• Ebonics

 

Further reading

• African-American English on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• African-American Vernacular English on Wikipedia.Wikipedia