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• African American Vernacular English
  African American Vernacular English

  noun

  a dialect of American English characterized by pronunciations, syntactic structures, and vocabulary associated with and used by some North American Black people and exhibiting a wide variety and range of forms varying in the extent to which they differ from Standard American English. AAVE
• African-American Vernacular English
  African-American Vernacular English

  noun

  a dialect of English typically spoken by working-class African-Americans

African American Vernacular English

American  

[af-ri-kuhn uh-mer-i-kuhn ver-nak-yuh-ler ing-glish] / ˈæf rɪ kən əˈmɛr ɪ kən vərˈnæk yə lər ˈɪŋ glɪʃ /

noun

1. a dialect of American English characterized by pronunciations, syntactic structures, and vocabulary associated with and used by some North American Black people and exhibiting a wide variety and range of forms varying in the extent to which they differ from Standard American English. AAVE

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African-American Vernacular English British  

noun

1.  AAVE.  Also called: ebonics.  a dialect of English typically spoken by working-class African-Americans

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Etymology

Origin of African American Vernacular English

First recorded in 1990–95