professional development
nonstandard dialects
ethnolects
African American Vernacular English (AAVE) has been known by a variety of names: ebonics; black English; African American Language (AAL), also called African American English; black vernacular; black English vernacular (BEV); black vernacular English (BVE); or nonstandard Negro dialect, to name a few. Whatever it is called, studies have estimated that in the late 1960s to early 1970s over 80 percent of Americans of African descent spoke some variety of black English. [Source: <a href="https://sk.sagepub.com/reference/multicultural-america/n36.xml" target="_blank" data-id="to-sk">Multicultural America: A Multimedia Encyclopedia; African American Vernacular English</a>]
AAVE
ebonics
language diversity
languages and linguistics
black culture
African American Vernacular English
concepts