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Everyday African American Vernacular English is a dialect born from conflict and creativity
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 years agoLinguists believe Black English might have originated from West African or Creole languages. Getty...
Spanglish has become a new English dialect in this U.S. city
NBC News via Yahoo News· 8 months agoLatinos have transformed Miami in the last half century and the Hispanic influence extends to unique...
African American English, Black ASL are stigmatized. Experts say they deserve recognition
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 3 months agoFor as long as she can remember, Sonja Lanehart has been fascinated by how people speak. In...
New Mexican Spanish, a unique American dialect, survives mostly in prayers
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFidel Trujillo and Leo Paul Pacheco’s words resounded in New Mexican Spanish, a unique dialect that...
Rural Alabama residents help neighbors overcome dialect challenges
The Montgomery Advertiser via Yahoo News· 10 months agoCOLLINSVILLE, Ala. — As Mexican, Guatemalan, and other Central American immigrants settled into the...
Will The Oxford Dictionary Of African American English Help Address Language Appropriation?
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA new project will finally acknowledge that AAVE isn't just slang. AlthoughAfricanAmerican...
In Miami, they get down from the car and make a party. Por qué?
Washington Post via Yahoo News· 6 months agoWhen Martha Valdés started traveling outside of her native Miami years ago, she noticed a pattern....
AI models found to show language bias by recommending Black defendents be 'sentenced to death'
Euronews via Yahoo News· 3 months agoLarge language models (LLMs) are more likely to criminalise users that use African American English,...
20 Richest Countries that Mainly Speak English
Insider Monkey via Yahoo Finance· 6 months agoIn this article, we will be studying the English language’s dominance across the world while covering the 20 richest countries that mainly speak English....
Do accents disappear?
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year agoSpeech patterns. Bobboz via Getty ImagesIn Boston, there are reports of people pronouncing the letter “r.” Down in Tennessee, people are noticing a lack...