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African American Vernacular English

African American Vernacular English is the alternative form of African-American Vernacular English.

Meaning of African-American Vernacular English

Proper noun

African-American Vernacular English

  1. A variation of Modern English spoken predominantly by lower socioeconomic class individuals of African descent, usually in urban or suburban surroundings in the United States.

Proper noun capitalized: African American vernacular English

African American vernacular English

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of African-American Vernacular English.

Questions about African American Vernacular English

What is African American Vernacular English the alternative form of?
African American Vernacular English is the alternative form of African-American Vernacular English.
What part of speech is African American Vernacular English?
African American Vernacular English is a proper noun.

Words near African American Vernacular English in the dictionary

  1. Africa-Eurasia
  2. Africa-wide
  3. African
  4. African American
  5. African American History Month
  6. African American Vernacular English
  7. African Americans
  8. African angelshark
  9. African angelsharks
  10. African anteater
  11. African anteaters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: African American Vernacular English (page history and authors); African American vernacular English (page history and authors); African-American Vernacular English (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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