2007-03-22 04:29:43 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
It is a slang that 'African Americans' use. It is in any city!
2007-03-22 04:33:44 · answer #1 · answered by Hot Momma 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ebony is a black wood. Ebonics is the name given to dialects of English developed among black people in the US. Slaves from Africa came with extremely different linguistic backgrounds, and it was natural that their English reflects this background. Some uneducated people think that black people should have abandoned everything as slaves, including all of their linguistic background, but this has not happened. Just as southern English and New York is different slightly from standard American English, so is Ebonics.
2007-03-22 04:58:03 · answer #2 · answered by Fred 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ebonics is essentially a dialect of the English language, primarily spoken in urban areas in the US.
2007-03-22 04:41:51 · answer #3 · answered by OhKatie! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well generally ebonics is a language that is made up by the people who speak it , it isnt really a language its like speaking slang. A lot of people in the ghetto speak it, but usually when people start making up words like that it spreads into society and a lot of people start speaking it.
2007-03-22 04:34:49 · answer #4 · answered by Cerenity 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a political catch phrase used to justify people using the english language incorrectly. It's been used in regards to people that live in poorer sections of cities- the idea being that these people are receiving less of an education due to the impoverished condition they live in.
2007-03-22 04:40:31 · answer #5 · answered by suprchgdr2 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ebonics iz uh term coined, originally intended an' sometimes used fo' da language o' all peeps o' African ancestry, or fo' dat o' Black north American an' west African peeps, emphasizing da African roots o' da former; since 1996 it has been largely used ta refer ta African American Vernacular English (distinctively nonstandard Black US English), emphasizing da independence o' da latter from (standard) English.
you know das right!
2007-03-22 04:36:06 · answer #6 · answered by bubbacornflakes 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is the dialect spoken by African American People.
2007-03-22 07:08:27 · answer #7 · answered by Martha P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's spoken by black people
and as many others have said it's mostly spoken in the ghetto
2007-03-22 04:40:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
go to the ghetto your bond to hear it spoken there
2007-03-22 04:33:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
spend some time in downtown memphis or anywhere mississippi and you wont be able to miss it. you may not be able to understand it but you cant miss it.
2007-03-22 04:33:30 · answer #10 · answered by R L 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋