Language in which "yo" is a pronoun

• American English offshoot
• Controversial talk
• Controversial "language" of the 1990s
• Dialect in 1990s news
• To linguists, it's African American Vernacular English
• Vernacular much debated in the 1990s

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"African-American vernacular English," 1975, as title of a book by U.S. professor R.L. Williams (b.1930); a blend of ebony and phonics .

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative case form of Ebonics English)

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
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 ...