Precise definitions for “bussin,” “chitterlings” and “cakewalk” will be distributed to the world in 2025 with a new dictionary issued by Oxford University Press. Last year, Oxford University Press ...

A dictionary composed of words created or redefined by Black people released a list of 10 words that will appear when the book is published in March 2025. Topping the list is “bussin,” which is an ...

A new project will finally acknowledge that AAVE isn't just slang. A new project will finally acknowledge that AAVE isn't just slang. So it feels good to hear that Henry Louis Gates Jr. and a team of ...

As part of its plans to leverage technology to preserve African languages, Mandla dictionary translates words into 100 languages for a start New York, New York--(Newsfile Corp. - October 20, 2022) - ...

A first-of-its-kind dictionary is coming to the world that’s comprised of words created, defined, and used in the African-American lingo. Oxford University Press will issue the “Oxford Dictionary of ...

Another resource for Black linguistics is on the way. In the next few years, we will have the Oxford Dictionary of African American English. According to The New York Times, this new dictionary is a ...

Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, led by Dr. Henry Louis Gates, and the Oxford English Dictionary have joined forces to compile the Oxford Dictionary of ...

(CNN) — Oxford University Press has announced a large-scale study that will culminate in the Oxford Dictionary of African American English, the brainchild of historian Henry Louis Gates that will ...

A dictionary composed of words created or redefined by Black people released a list of 10 words that will appear when the book is published in March 2025. Topping the list is “bussin,” which is an ...

For centuries, the Cape Verdean Creole language captured a spirit of resistance in song, stories, and the streets of The West African Islands. However, the language was never written down, until now.