#african american language

[applebottomjeans2345]

AAVE and misogynoir

an ongoing reflection of my class and my final project

I've been taking a really cool linguistics class abt the history and grammar of AAVE (African American Vernacular English) and I noticed this interesting detail abt past academic analyses of AAVE-- when researchers first started analyzing AAVE, the demographic that they initially studied were young Black people in urban spaces, especially Black, working class men. This focus had the unintentional consequences of making it seem to the general public that Black men were primarily the ones using AAVE, although this is clearly not true.

Now obviously, Black women also use AAVE in their daily lives; hell, there are several papers that have focused on the linguistic habits of Black women. However, I think that when many people talk about AAVE in regular conversations, the image that comes to the mind of many is of young Black men; particularly, young and DANGEROUS Black men. With this being said, it really made me think hard about how we always see people on Twitter misusing AAVE (or how "gen z slang" is often just AAVE, once again being taken out of context). I also really think that much of the AAVE being misused online has primarily come from the language of Black women, as opposed to that of Black men, so it's something I've really been thinking about recently-- I feel like there's definitely some misogynoir tied to this phenomenon but idrk how to articulate it. If anyone sees this, tell me what you think, for my final project I typed this post up to see what having a discussion like this outside of class might be like!

#aave #aal #african american language #african american vernacular english #african american english #aae #misogynoir #black feminism #gen z “slang” #final project #linguistics #black culture #black studies

[forthosebefore]

Are there Black dialects of Spanish?

Some people got a surprising result after taking an MIT dialect quiz. It was meant to guess what U.S. dialect the test taker spoke and the person's native language. As results started coming in, many Spanish speakers saw their English dialect had been marked as “U.S. Black Vernacular/Ebonics”

But what's the connection between speaking Spanish and U.S. Black Vernacular?

In the United States, dialects spoken by African Americans are sometimes referred to as Black English, African American Vernacular English, or even Ebonics. Though the terms have had different levels of popularity, having a specific name at all has given African Americans the ability to reclaim their language practices as a joyous part of their identity. 

But much less common are terms and discussions about Blackness and Black language beyond English. If Black English dialects exist, are there also Black forms of other languages due to colonization? For example, are there Black Spanishes and Black Portugueses, too? Read more here.

Source: Are there Black dialects of Spanish? by Aris M. Clemons

Visit www.attawellsummer.com/forthosebefore to learn more about Black history.

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#black history #Afro-Latino #diaspora #African diaspora #dialects #linguistics #race #identity #language #Spanish #AAVE #ebonics #African American Vernacular English

[globalriseofblackpeople]

Stop correcting southerners . It’s very anti black . A Lot of AAVE or Ebonics come from the south . Respect it . There is no proper way to speak

#AAVE #Ebonics #black power #knowledge #black knowledge #language #English #african american #african american history

[have-you-read-this-short-fiction]

#short stories #short story #a dead djinn in cairo #phenderson djèlí clark #p. djèlí clark #p djèlí clark #dexter gabriel #21st century literature #american literature #african american literature #black literature #english language literature #have you read this short fiction? #book polls #completed polls

[like-this-post-if-you]

Like this post if you speak a Sign Language

#sign language #asl #american sign language #bsl #british sign language #african sign laguage #libras #lsb #brazillian sign language #lsm #mexican sign language #lsf #french sign language #rsl #russian sign language #langblr #likes

[lingthusiasm]

Bonus 80: Postcards from linguistics summer camp

What if there was a summer camp for linguists? Like, imagine you could just go somewhere for a few weeks or a month and do linguistics classes and go to linguistics talks and eat your meals with linguists all day every day? Well, this event exists, sort of, and they're called linguistics institutes. 

In this bonus episode, Gretchen and Lauren get enthusiastic about Gretchen's visit to the 2023 LSA institute at University of Massachusetts Amherst this summer. We talk about cool projects that Gretchen learned about at this year's Lingstitute, including the Linguistic Atlas Project, the Oxford Dictionary of African American English, and the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project (talks about all of these projects are now available online). We also talk about the history of LSA summer institutes (the first one was in 1928, almost a hundred years ago!), why they're not to be confused with the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL), which is a missionary project for Bible translation (awkward), and both Gretchen's history attending various institutes and Lauren's history not attending them (sorry about the FOMO though).

Listen to this episode about linguistics summer camp and get access to many more bonus episodes by supporting Lingthusiasm on Patreon.

#language #linguistics #lingthusiasm #lsa #lingstitute #lsa institute #Oxford Dictionary of African American English #Linguistic Atlas Project #Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project #linguistic summer camp

[kemetic-dreams]

Brothers George and Stephen Bonga fur traders of a African father and Ojibwe mother. George born in 1802, Stephen 1799, they were among the first blacks born in Minnesota. Schooled in Montreal, Quebec They could speak French, Ojibwe, and English. They lived with and acted as translators for the Ojibwe. Bungo Township in Cass County Minnesota is named after their family. (Spelling varied widely at that time)

#african #afrakan #kemetic dreams #africans #brownskin #afrakans #brown skin #george bonga #stephen bonga #ojibwe #asian american #french #english #ojibwe language #minnesota #cass county #bungo township #montreal

[saharathorn]

#Gullah #gullah geechee #African american #African American languages #creole languages

[spookymodernjazz]

hot take but i think we should hunt people like this for sport

#lots to unpack here but the username especially is making me want to commit acts of violence #did not watch the video but i do not want to because ive stopped giving these people the benefit of the doubt #its almost always asian people #sometimes africans #never other white people #cuz if some american goes to europe and starts speaking other languages no one cares cuz thats what EVERYONE DOES #EVERYONE SPEAKS LIKE THREE LANGUAGES MINIMUM #no its always IM CRACKING THE MYSTERIES OF THE ORIENT #IM UNLOCKING THEIR ANCIENT SECRETS #IM FORCIBLY INVADING THEIR SPACES AND RECORDING STRANGERS FOR VIEWS TO MAKE ME LOOK COOL

[haveyouheardthisfolksong]

General disclaimer: While this song has religious connotations, this blog is purely for polling, and is not intended to promote any religious or political ideologies.

Note 2: This song is an African American Spiritual. While there is some debate, spirituals are generally considered to be a genre of folk music, and are therefore included in this poll. To learn more about spirituals, click here.

#folk music #have you heard this folk song #folk song #culture tag: african american #culture tag: america #language tag: english #song tag: swing low sweet chariot #Youtube

[mayday396]

Story idea: The Constable and the Witch

Set in a Historical Fantasy version of Late 1600s Colonial America, a Constable from Massachusetts, Thaddeus Fernsby, keeps running into a Runaway Slave, who is a Witch, with Magical abilities granted to her by Phulu Bunzi, Chief blacksmith and lord spirit of the waters in Kongo Mythology.

Throughout the story, Thaddeus and the Witch become Chaotic Besties duo, while her Werewolf Partner of a Freedom Fighter thinks they are dating while pinning for the Witch.

The big bad of the series, are the Puritans because the Salem Witch Trials are going to Happen.

#i couldn't think up an African Name for the Witch #more specifically anything woth the Kongo language #this goes to the Werewolf to who is of Naumkeag descent which is historical tribe of Eastern Algonquian-speaking Native American people who #lived during the 1600s at the time of the Puritan migration to New England #and what is present day Salem #story idea #story concept #original story #story prompt #writeblr #historical fantasy #fantasy #historical fiction

[linguisticdiscovery]

A dictionary of African American English

Oxford University Press is publishing a dictionary of African American English!

"The dictionary will not just collect spellings and definitions. It will also create a historical record and serve as a tribute to the people behind the words." ~ Henry Louis Gates, Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University

The project is a collaboration between Oxford University Press and the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University, headed by Henry Louis Gates.

#dialect #lexicography #African American English #Black English #Black #Ebonics #linguistics #language #words #grammar

[globalriseofblackpeople]

Black language or AAVE (African American vernacular English )

It’s deep in our culture even the little things . Wow

#black children #aave #African American vernacular English #black power #knowledge #black knowledge #black history #black language #self knowledge #language

[have-you-read-this-short-fiction]

"Brownies" by Z.Z. Packer is available to read here

#short stories #short story #brownies #zz packer #z.z. packer #z. z. packer #21st century literature #black literature #african american literature #american literature #english language literature #have you read this short fiction? #book polls #completed polls #links to text

[linguisticty]

can you recommend some portuguese literature, not just in portuguese but from Portugal? I've saved your post on brazilian literature and appreaciated it a lot 🧡

sorry it took so long, anon. i always forget to check if someone asked something!

thank you so much for your request! i would love to do that. i might not be the hugest fan of portuguese literature, but i did major in it too... i'll start planning it and working on it. it will probably take a while, since i always make an effort to find any available translations and interesting info to bring to the table. i will make it clear i will only mention well known (as in, well known world-wide) portuguese authors because my idea is to bring light to more authors who deserve recognition.

i think i'll take advantage of this request and work on some portuguese language african literature masterpost as well, and even get back to some of my other masterposts ideas!

#linguisticty #dark academia #dark academia aesthetic #dark academia women #latinx academia #latin american academia #latin american dark academia #literature #lit #portuguese literature #darkest academia #poc dark academia #portuguese major #poc academia #portuguese language literature #african literature

[gravalicious]

Zora Neale Hurston - A Story in Harlem Slang (1942)

#zora neale hurston #harlem #slang #african-american #culture #language