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    The document discusses the origins of African American Language (AAL) in the United States. There are two perspectives on AAL - dialectologists view it as a dialect of English while creolists believe it is a creole language formed from West African languages and English. Both agree that AAL emerged due to slavery. Creole languages are mixtures of two languages formed when one becomes a native language, and AAL features may have developed from forced illiteracy that suppressed the native language. While some argue AAL is too similar to English, others note languages like Spanish and Portuguese share similarities as well.

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    The document discusses the origins of African American Language (AAL) in the United States. There are two perspectives on AAL - dialectologists view it as a dialect of English while creolists believe it is a creole language formed from West African languages and English. Both agree that AAL emerged due to slavery. Creole languages are mixtures of two languages formed when one becomes a native language, and AAL features may have developed from forced illiteracy that suppressed the native language. While some argue AAL is too similar to English, others note languages like Spanish and Portuguese share similarities as well.

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    AAL Origins in the U.S.

    Language vs Dialect

    Dialectologists argue that AAL is not a language, but a dialect of British English

    Creolists believe that AAL is not a dialect, but a language, a creole language of

    West African Dialects as well British English

    However, both agree that AAL was created due to slavery in the U.S.
    Pidgin & Creole languages

    Both are mixtures of two different languages

    Pidgin is a makeshift language between two speakers with different native

    languages

    Creole language is developed from 2 separate languages and acts as ones native

    language
    How language was controlled

    Language planning

    Forced illiteracy

    Refusal to accept native language

    Certain AAL features (such as semantic inversion) were created because of this
    Modern AAL

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cseYyv72FBo
    Too similar to Prescribed English

    One argument for AAL being a form of English rather than its own language is

    that they share too similar of a grammar and lexicon

    However, the same could be said regarding Spanish and Portuguese, both of

    which are universally recognized as 2 separate languages

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