“It be like, looking all funny and stuff any time I put ‘em in the dryer”ĪAVE has pervaded much of popular mainstream culture and, like many other attributes of Black culture, it is rarely ever credited for its origins.īlack languages came out of the experience of enslaved African and their descendents in the Diaspora. = He’s a frequent flyer he travels by airplane regularly. (4) To be in some emotional state on most occasions. So when speakers know AAE, they know a system of sounds, word and sentence structure, meaning and structural organization of vocabulary items and other information. …the linguistic and paralinguistic features which on a concentric continuum represents the communicative compentencee of the West African, Caribbean, and United States idioms, patois, argots, ideolects, and social forces of black people…Ebonics derives its form from ebony(black) and phonics(sound, study of sound) and refers to the study of the language of black people in all its cultural uniqueness.ĪAVE is part of the long history of Black languages it is a system of sounds, words and sentence structures with strong African semantics. This language also falls within a body of work known as ‘Ebonics’- “Ebony” deriving from the word ‘Black’ and “phonics” derives from the word ‘sound’. The renowned lingo forms part of a language called AAVE.įor those who don’t know, AAVE is short for ‘African American Vernacular English’ and is a language created by African Americans. ![]() ![]() In your music, on social media, or maybe just in everyday conversation.īut have you ever stopped to wonder where these words actually come from? ![]() Surely, you’ve heard of the words ‘bae’… ‘lit’… ‘trippin’, ‘what’s good’.
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