Subject of a 1990s language controversy

• A nonstandard form of American English spoken by some American Black people
• African American Vernacular English
• American English offshoot
• Controversial "language" of the 1990s
• Vernacular that came into prominence in 1996
• Language in which "yo" is a pronoun
• Linguistics term coined in 1973, and made controversial in 1996

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n. (alternative case form of Ebonics English)

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Ebonics may refer to: African American Vernacular English , a distinctive lect, or variety, of English spoken by African Americans , sometimes called Ebonics Ebonics (word) , a term that is used for what linguists far more often term African American Vernacular ...