Category:African-American Vernacular English

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Terms or senses in the variety of English spoken, especially in urban communities, by most working-class and some middle-class African-Americans.

It is a sociolect with significantly different grammatical characteristics from Standard English, especially in tense-aspect and negation constructions. Many African-American communities maintain diglossia between African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) and Standard English.

The following label generates this category: African-American Vernacular (aliases AAVE, African American Vernacular, African American Vernacular English, African-American Vernacular English, BVE)^edit. To generate this category using one of these labels, use {{lb|en|label}}.