Ebonics (word)

Ebonics (a portmanteau of the words ebony and phonics) is a term created in 1973 by a group of black scholars who disapproved of the negative terms being used to describe their type of language. Since the 1996 controversy over its use by the Oakland School Board, the term Ebonics has primarily been used to refer to the sociolects of African-American English, which typically are distinctively different from Standard American English.