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Ebonics (word)
Ebonics
(a
blend
of the words
ebony
and
phonics
) is a term that was originally intended to refer to the language of all people descended from enslaved
Black
Africans
, particularly in
West Africa
, the
Caribbean
, and
North America
. Since the 1996
controversy over its use by the Oakland School Board
, the term
Ebonics
has primarily been used to refer to
African American Vernacular English
(AAVE), a dialect distinctively different from Standard
American English
.
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