black english
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Any of several varieties of English spoken by or associated with Black people, especially people of African origin or in Africa.
name
Any of several varieties of English spoken by or associated with Black people, especially people of African origin or in Africa.
American usage
Example Sentences
- "Sranan-Tongo is a New World Black language form produced by the same processes that gave rise to Afro-American and Afro-Caribbean Black English."
- "There is little doubt that an African variety of English is very much part of the communicative economy of the new South Africa (for which I shall use the conventional label South African Black English, in short SABE)."
- "Perhaps Black English will yield a new neutral term for wokeness."
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Linguistics.