Linguists estimate that AAVE is spoken by 80-90% of African Americans, at least in some settings. Those who speak AAVE are described as “bidialectal”, meaning they slip easily in and out of AAVE and Standard American English (SAE) dialect, and the extent of its use is regulated by circumstances such as communication partner, environment, or topic. In addition, researchers at the University of Michigan found that most AAVE speakers use it in less than one third of their speech events.
Furthermore, AAVE is occasionally spoken by members of other racial and ethnic groups; these people are considered to be part of the AAVE “speech community”.
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