Black English

English Proper noun Any of several varieties of English spoken by or associated with Black people, especially people of African origin or in Africa.1998 Tom McArthur Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language en 1977 David Ola Oke The genesis of New World Black English Caribbean Quarterly 65 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. 23 en 1997 Rajend Mesthrie Englishes Around the World 119 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). A sociolinguistic study of topicalisation phenomena in South African Black English Manfred Görlach; Edgar W. Schneider 2 https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=yeUro38OAzUC&oi=fnd&pg=PA119 en US en African-American English en AAE, sometimes specifically en African-American Vernacular English en AAVE. en w:John McWhorter ‘Woke’ Went the Way of ‘P.C.’ and ‘Liberal’ The New York Times 2021-11-16 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/16/opinion/woke-progressive-liberal.html 0362-4331 Perhaps Black English will yield a new neutral term for wokeness. https://web.archive.org/web/20251020140931/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/16/opinion/woke-progressive-liberal.html 20 October 2025 en UK en Multicultural London English en MLE. en CA en Greater Toronto English en MTE. See also en Black British Black English Vernacular Ebonics blaccent References Further reading en African-American English en African-American Vernacular English en Sociolinguistics Dialects English