Ebonics

Meaning

Proper Noun

  • African American Vernacular English (AAVE).

Origin

  • . Coined by scholars at the 1973 Cognitive and Language Development of the Black Child conference led by Robert L. Williams and published in his 1975 book Ebonics: The True Language of Black Folks.

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