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African-American English
English sociolects spoken by black people in the US and Canada
African-American English
African-American English (AAE), or African-American Language (AAL), is the group of English dialects and creoles spoken predominantly by African Americans in the United States and, less often, in Canada. Commonly, African-American English is an umbrella term that refers to a dialect continuum ranging from non-standard varieties, like African-American Vernacular English and Gullah, to more standard American English. The term African-American Language is used to emphasize the variety's relationship with African and creole languages. Like all widely spoken language varieties, African-American English shows variation stylistically, generationally, geographically (that is, features specific to singular cities or regions only), in rural versus urban characteristics, in vernacular versus standard registers, etc. There has been a significant body of African-American literature and oral tradition for centuries.
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