Meaning of Black English | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any of several varieties of English spoken by or associated with Black people, especially people of African origin or in Africa.
2. Synonym of African-American English (“AAE”), sometimes specifically African-American Vernacular English (“AAVE”).
   US
3. Synonym of Multicultural London English (“MLE”).
   UK
4. Synonym of Greater Toronto English (“MTE”).
   Canada

Examples

“Sranan-Tongo is a New World Black language form produced by the same processes that gave rise to Afro-American and Afro-Caribbean Black English.”

“There is little doubt that an African variety of English is very much part of the communicative economy of the new South Africa (for which I shall use the conventional label South African Black English, in short SABE).”

“Perhaps Black English will yield a new neutral term for wokeness.”

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