African-American English | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-11-21

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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. African-American English shows variation such as in vernacular versus standard forms, rural versus urban characteristics, features specific to singular cities or regions only, and other sociolinguistic criteria. There has also  been a significant body of African-American literature and oral tradition for centuries.
African-American English began as early as the seventeenth century, when the Atlantic slave trade brought African slaves into the majority-white culture of British-colonial North America in an area that became the Southern United States in the late eighteenth century. During the development of plantation culture in this region, nonstandard dialects of English were widely spoken by British settlers, as well as likely some creolized varieties, resulting in second-language English varieties developed by African Americans. The nineteenth century's evolving cotton-plantation industry greatly contributed to spread of some of the first of these varieties as native and stable forms of English, ancestors of modern African-American Vernacular English.