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Material from African Nova Scotian English was split to African-American English on 30 December 2019‎ from this version. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted so long as the latter page exists. Please leave this template in place to link the article histories and preserve this attribution. The former page's talk page can be accessed at Talk:African Nova Scotian English.

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The two terms refer to the same dialect of English, according to linguists (such as Dr. Lisa Green who wrote the linked page) working on the dialect itself. There is no need to separate them. ( Ebonics is also the same, but the term has a distinctive history, which is why I neglect to mention that one but it, arguably, should be combined, too.)

Further sources:

• Linguistic Society of America
• Univ. of Oregon's African American Language resource page
• The Oxford Handbook of African American Language

Edenaviv5 ( talk) 01:49, 29 February 2024 (UTC) reply