What is Ebonics?

Question

Does anyone know what Ebonics is? Also, can you tell me some of the words in Ebonics? Thanks. Also, if you know the hgistory of Ebonics that would be helpful too.

Answer 1

Ebonics is like Black american language(Slang in other words).

About “80 to 90 percent of American blacks” speak AAVE “at least some of the time” (Smitherman 2). Additionally, AAVE shares many characteristics with various Creole English dialects spoken by black people in much of the world. AAVE also has pronunciation, grammatical structures, and vocabulary in common with various West African languages (Trudgill). AAVE also has contributed to Standard American English words of African origin ("gumbo", "goober", "yam", "banjo", "bogus") and slang expressions ("cool," "hip," "hep cat"). In areas of close socialization between speakers of AAVE and other groups of people, a greater number of non-black speakers exist.

Thats much of the history but for the words here goes a site, hope i was much of a help to you. I also use Ebonics too so.... yea. Here ya go

http://www.voxcommunications.com/slang15.htm

Answer 2

"Ebonics", the name, was invented by the Los Angeles School Board of Trustees. They had discovered an enormous federal grant available to schools who taught lanuguages other than Spanish, French, etc. They relabeled street talk so they could acquire the grant.

At the time of the national debate, I was tutoring a 12 year old boy. He was an AA. Although it was awkward, I forced myself to speak with his father and ask if I should introduce this element into our studies. His father was outraged and informed me in no uncertain terms that he did NOT want his boy learning trash talk, that Walter was getting tutoring so he could rise above his parents' station. He believed in "when in Rome, do as the Romans do" and that if Walter spoke well, many more doors would be open to him.

Examples of Ebonics, gleaned from my life in East Texas, are: "I be going to de sto"; "I gots me bunches of dos"; "I be teachin dem kids they takesaways (subtraction)". Teaching this 'language' formally would be as silly as teaching Texas country-people talk: "I'm fixin to carry him to the store"; "I have a passel of those" and "why cain't you quieten down".

Answer 3

Jesse Jackson established Ebonics as the vernacular language that some black Americans use. it derived from the words ebony-black and phonics.the word became popular during the late 80's

Answer 4

African American Vernacular English (AAVE), also called African American English, Black English, Black Vernacular, Black English Vernacular (BEV), Black Vernacular English (BVE), or (usually perjoratively) "Jive", is a type variety (dialect, ethnolect and sociolect) of the American English language. It is known colloquially as Ebonics (a portmanteau of "ebony" and "phonics"). With pronunciation that in some respects is common to Southern American English, the variety is spoken by many African Americans in the United States and even by some non-African Americans who have grown up in predominantly black communities. AAVE shares many characteristics with various Creole English dialects spoken by black people in much of the world. AAVE also has pronunciation, grammatical structures, and vocabulary in common with various West African languages. Speakers are often bidialectal and, like any form of language, age, status, topic, and setting influence the use of AAVE. For example, research has found that AAVE is used more often when discussing abstract concepts, such as feelings, and when speaking to members of one's own peer group.

Answer 5

Ebonics is an attempt to make laziness an excuse for not learning.

Answer 6

It's similar to a creole of English. For example American English is a lazy version or simply a reduced version of its original form.

Answer 7

Everything you need to know is on these 2 sites below. Only don't look at the lexicon or the vocab sections because they're trash and nobody talks like that anymore, lol.


http://www.une.edu.au/langnet/aave.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American_Vernacular_English

Answer 8

probably some nerdy language that is used in America.