Colloquial American English I Learned from Malcolm X
By Farooq A. Kperogi In observance of America’s Black History Month, I am again reproducing a column I wrote on March 2, 2014, on an Africa...
Showing posts with label African American English. Show all posts
Showing posts with label African American English. Show all posts
African Words in America’s Gullah English Dialect II
By Farooq Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Last week, I highlighted many African-derived words in the Gullah dialect that Dr. L...
African Words in America’s Gullah English Dialect (I)
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Last week I identified some notable African onomastic (onomastics is the scienc...
Gullah: An African-American English Dialect No One Understands
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi In line with my tradition to highlight aspects of the linguistic culture of Blac...
Black American Vernacular English Expressions You Should Know
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi In the spirit of America’s Black History Month, which is observed every Febru...
American Influences in Nigerian English
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi The trouble with labeling anything American English these days is that American ...
African Words in the American English Gullah Dialect
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Last week I identified some notable African onomastic (onomastics is the scienc...
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