different between african vs blackspeak

Friulian

Adjective

african

1. African

Occitan

Pronunciation

Adjective

african m (feminine singular africana, masculine plural africans, feminine plural africanas)

1. African

Related terms

• Africa

Venetian

Adjective

african m (feminine singular africana, masculine plural africani, feminine plural africane)

1. African

Related terms

• Àfrica

English

Etymology

black +? -speak

Noun

blackspeak (uncountable)

1. The dialect of English spoken by people of sub-Saharan African ancestry living stateside.
   • 1995, Robert Dawidoff, "The Kind of Person You Have to Sound Like to Sing 'Alexander's Ragtime Band'", in Elazar Barkan and Ronald Bush, editors, Prehistories of the Future: The Primitivist Project and the Culture of Modernism, Stanford University Press, ?ISBN, page 302,

     It sounds odd to us now, but contemporary sources... suggest how the archaic blackspeak that we associate with blackface performers had some of the aura of the later white appropriations of black speech.

   • 2002, Joe S. Harrington, Sonic Cool: The Life & Death of Rock 'n' Roll, Hal Leonard, ?ISBN, page 64,

     Jordan's records were the first time many whites encountered the nuances of hip urban blackspeak.

   • 2006, Robert B. Parker, Hundred-Dollar Baby, Putnam, ?ISBN, page 35,

     Like Hawk, he moved easily in and out of blackspeak as it suited him.

     "They is a couple of approaches to the whore business," he said.

Synonyms

• African American Vernacular English, AAVE
• Ebonics