Plantain Queen
General Manager
This post is mostly me thinking out loud but this confuses me. In most cases, people address it as a dialect but I honestly think it's a language and I'm sure most experienced linguists would agree.
I did a course in Communication Studies back in form 6 in Trinidad and I found out that each Caribbean country's Creole/ Patois is a language with it's own set of rules. That's when I realised that AAVE would also be a language and not just a dialect, since it's meant to be spoken a certain way.
I notice that when a white person attempts to use AAVE, it just sounds wrong because they aren't aware of the rules and therefore don't know how to speak it correctly.
I just want the Creole languages of the African diaspora to have the same respect as other languages.
I did a course in Communication Studies back in form 6 in Trinidad and I found out that each Caribbean country's Creole/ Patois is a language with it's own set of rules. That's when I realised that AAVE would also be a language and not just a dialect, since it's meant to be spoken a certain way.
I notice that when a white person attempts to use AAVE, it just sounds wrong because they aren't aware of the rules and therefore don't know how to speak it correctly.
I just want the Creole languages of the African diaspora to have the same respect as other languages.