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Ebonics, which stands for Ebony + Phonics is a new term that Linguistics use to describe Black Dialect or Black English or many of the other names that it has been given for more that 350 years. ...
Ebonics is a "language" that is a combination of "proper English" and a combination of African languages. ... (Smitherman) Being that these two groups merged together they adapted each others language whether it was correct or incorrect
On the east coast of America, the Blacks spoke a different degree of Ebonics which was discovered in newspaper articles. ... Harriet Tubman and many others communicated in Ebonics which their masters couldnt understand and escaped through the underground railroad. ... It is not written in Ebonics but when the slaves song the song their masters still had no idea what the were talking about. ...
This proves that Ebonics has been around for many years and will be around for a long time. ... Ebonics has improved from the early 1600s to now but some of the improper English still stands today.
Approximate Word count = 788
Approximate Pages = 3.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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