black vernacular

Questions about black vernacular

What does black vernacular mean?

black vernacular means "a nonstandard form of American English characteristically spoken by African Americans in the United States".

What is another word for black vernacular?

Close synonyms include African American Vernacular English, AAVE, African American English, Black English, Black English Vernacular. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is black vernacular a common word?

black vernacular is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.