American English offshoot

• Controversial talk
• Linguistics term coined in 1973, and made controversial in 1996
• African American Vernacular English
• Controversial "language" of the 1990s
• Much-debated school subject
• Controversial school language subject
• Vernacular that came into prominence in 1996
• A nonstandard form of American English spoken by some American Black people

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 ...

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 .