different between spoken vs blackspeak

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?spo?k?n/
• Rhymes: -??k?n

Adjective

spoken (comparative more spoken, superlative most spoken)

1. Relating to speech
2. Speaking in a specified way

   soft-spoken

   well-spoken

Synonyms

• oral, verbal

Antonyms

• unspoken

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

spoken

1. past participle of speak

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?spo?.k?(n)/
• Hyphenation: spo?ken
• Rhymes: -o?k?n

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch spoken. Equivalent to spook +? -en.

Verb

spoken

1. (intransitive) to haunt

Inflection

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

spoken

1. Plural form of spook

Middle English

Noun

spoken

1. plural of spoke

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?spok?n]

Verb

spoken

1. past participle of speak

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