Black English Near its Roots [electronic resource] : The Transplanted West African Creoles / John C. Birmingham, Jr.

It seems highly likely that many of the features of Black American English can be traced back to the Afro-Portuguese Creole dialects that sprang up in the fifteenth century in Portuguese slave camps along the West African coast, particularly in the Gulf of Guinea area, the area of greatest concentra...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Birmingham, John C., Jr
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1976.
Subjects:	Black Dialects. Creoles. Diachronic Linguistics. Dialect Studies. English. Language Research. Language Variation. Nonstandard Dialects. Sociolinguistics.