Ebonics

American  

[ih-bon-iks] / ɪˈbɒn ɪks /

Or ebonics

noun

(used with a singular verb)

1. African American Vernacular English.

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ebonics British  

/ ɪˈbɒnɪks /

noun

1. (functioning as singular) another name for African-American Vernacular English

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Etymology

Origin of Ebonics

An Americanism first recorded in 1970–75; blend of ebony and phonics

Example Sentences

Next up was Micah Bournes, 35, who drove from Long Beach to perform “Native Tongue,” a spoken-word poem on cultural assimilation and Ebonics.

From Los Angeles Times

It is the culinary counterpart to African American vernacular English, “in other words, black English, Ebonics,” he explained.

From Washington Post

McWhorter’s début as a public intellectual came twenty years ago, when a fracas erupted over a proposal to use Black English—then often called Ebonics—as a teaching tool in public schools in Oakland, California.

From The New Yorker

I know how to speak Spanish, English obviously, and I speak pretty good Ebonics.”

From Washington Times

"I am. I know how to speak Spanish, English obviously, and I speak pretty good Ebonics."

From US News