different between ancestry vs blackspeak

English

Alternative forms

• ancestrie (obsolete)
• auncestrie (obsolete)
• auncestry (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English auncestrie, from Old French ancesserie. See ancestor.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?æn.s?s.t?i/

Noun

ancestry (plural ancestries)

1. Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.

   Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. -Addison.

2. A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.

Synonyms

• provenance

Related terms

• ancestor

Translations

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