African-American English
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African-American English (AAE), also known as Black English in North American linguistics, is the set of English dialects primarily spoken by most black people in North America;most commonly, it refers to a dialect continuum ranging from African-American Vernacular English to a more standard English.
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- Africanisms
- Code-switching
- Dialects of North American English
- English-based creole languages
- Glossary of jive talk
- Gullah language
- Habitual be
- Is-leveling
- Jive filter
- Scientific racism
- Languages of the United States
- Sociolinguistics
- Southern American English
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