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Afro-American Vernacular English

Afro-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.

Questions about Afro-American Vernacular English

What is Afro-American Vernacular English the alternative form of?
Afro-American Vernacular English is the alternative form of African-American Vernacular English.

Words near Afro-American Vernacular English in the dictionary

  1. Afro picks
  2. afro'd
  3. Afro-
  4. Afro-America
  5. Afro-American
  6. Afro-American Vernacular English
  7. Afro-Americans
  8. Afro-Arab
  9. Afro-Arabs
  10. Afro-Argentine
  11. Afro-Argentines

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Afro-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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