Category:African-American Vernacular English

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  1. sistah
  2. for a minute
  3. bidness
  4. crack
  5. thug
  6. and shit
  7. hoe around
  8. B
  9. YN
  10. bitch, please
Oldest pages ordered by last edit:
  1. geek
  2. for a minute
  3. homeboy
  4. threads
  5. nizzle
  6. run up on
  7. paddy
  8. trifling
  9. ashy
  10. baller

Terms or senses in the variety of English spoken, especially in urban communities, by most working-class and some middle-class African-Americans.

It is a sociolect with significantly different grammatical characteristics from Standard English, especially in tense-aspect and negation constructions. Many African-American communities maintain diglossia between African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) and Standard English.

The following label generates this category: African-American Vernacular (aliases AAVE, African American Vernacular, African American Vernacular English, African-American Vernacular English, BVE)edit. To generate this category using one of these labels, use {{lb|en|label}}.



Pages in category "African-American Vernacular English"

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