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Ebonics Research Paper

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Ebonics is used by a group of people pertaining to a certain race or community (mostly African-American). It has most of the characteristics commonly found in a language; subsequently, seeing it as a language on its own could be an open ended argument based on each conversationalist’s point of view. Just like any other languages known to man – it is arbitrary, productive, creative, systematic, vocalic, social, non-instinctive and conventional. It serves the purpose of facilitating or conveying thoughts between individuals. From that being said, I personally have the opposite thought when it comes to perceiving it as a bona-fide language because, it doesn’t have its own alphabet or grammatical rules. As we all know, the world has been a diverse

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