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African American Vernacular English

African American Vernacular English (AAVE), also called Black English, Black Vernacular, or Black English Vernacular (BEV), is a type variety (dialect, ethnolect and sociolect) of the American English language. It is known colloquially as Ebonics (a portmanteau of "ebony" and "phonics"), Ebo, or Jive.

Wikipedia and Wikis

African American Vernacular English - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American_Vern ...

Other

Ebonics Notes and Discussion
http://www.stanford.edu/~rickford/ebonics/EbonicsE ...
Opening Pandora's Box
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/ch ...
full text of the Oakland resolution
http://www.linguistlist.org/topics/ebonics/ebonics ...
Large inventory of AAVE phonological features
http://www.rehabmed.ualberta.ca/spa/phonology/feat ...
Hip Hop Linguistics
http://www.hiphoplinguistics.com/
1999 essay in ''The African-Americanist''
http://www.missouri.edu/~bkstdwww/ebonics.html
a later, revised resolution from Oakland
http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/8/8-56.html
AAVE page from UNE's Language Varieties site
http://www.une.edu.au/langnet/aave.htm
The Ebonics resolution
http://www.dandrake.com/ebonics.html
a resolution from the Linguistic Society of America
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/ebonics.lsa ...
Dialect Readers Revisited
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Linguistics/DIALECT_REA ...

Keywords and Synonyms

African American Vernacular English, Ebonics, Black English Vernacular, Black English, African American slang, African American English, AAVE, Eubonics, Ghetto english, Ghetto speak, Standardized bad english, Dogg, Jive, African American English Vernacular, Dawg, Doggz