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Originally posted by preciousjeni
Hmmm... are people ready for this?  It's actually called Southern Vernacular English (SVE) and it is not "slang." It is, in fact, a dialect as you state. And, what people consider "ebonics" is actually another dialect of English called African American Vernacular English (AAVE). Both of these dialects are structured and are both VERY correct. The ONLY reason these dialects are not acceptable in schools and what are considered "formal" environments is because Americans traditionally consider "Standard English" to be the formal dialect of English.
Yes, "Standard English" is a dialect. British English is the original language from which all of these dialects are derived.
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The Oakland resolution declared that Ebonics was not English, and was not an Indo-European language at all, asserting that the speech of black children belonged to "West and Niger-Congo African Language Systems". This claim was quickly ruled inconsistent with current linguistic theory, that AAVE is a dialect of English and thus of Indo-European origin. Furthermore, the differences between modern AAVE and Standard English are nowhere near as great as those between French and the Haitian Creole language, the latter of which is considered a separate language. The statement that "African Language Systems are genetically based" also contributed to widespread incredulity and hostility. Supporters of the resolution later stated that "genetically" was not a racist term but a linguistic one.