The term was coined by Robert Williams in 1973, but it wasn’t until the Ebonics controversy that Ebonics became widely used.

A collection of John Rickford's writings on Ebonics. ... The Ebonics controversy in my backyard: A sociolinguist's experiences and reflections

(1) Some sample sentences in AAVE/Ebonics, with discussion of the ways in which they show the systematicity of AAVE:

Ebonics is a language system characteristic of certain speech communities in the United States, especially (but not exclusively) African American communities in urban areas and the South.

The variety known as "Ebonics," "African American Vernacular English" (AAVE), and "Vernacular Black English" and by other names is systematic and rule-governed like all natural speech varieties.

ebonics - 91 definitions - A poor excuse for a failure to grasp the basics of english. When in doubt, throw an "izzle" sound in the middle of any w... ... Ebonics: "Yo G, you frontin me?" ;

This page is the result of a project I did for my LIN 404T class. It is dedicated to the study of African American Vernacular English (AAVE). ... There are two main hypotheses about the origin of AAVE.

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Despite more than a quarter century of concentrated work on [Ebonics], only a handful of African American faculty of any specialization exist in linguistics.