Nigga
Colloquial term derived from the ethnic slur against black people / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Nigga (/ˈnɪɡə/) is a colloquial term in African-American Vernacular English that is considered vulgar in many contexts. It began as a dialect form of the word nigger, an ethnic slur against black people. As a result of reappropriation, today the word is used mostly by African-Americans in a largely non-pejorative sense as a slang term referring to another black person or to themselves, often in a neutral or friendly way.[1][2] The word is commonly associated with hip hop culture and since the 1990s, with gangs (especially in popular culture).
In dialects of English (including standard British English) that have non-rhotic speech, nigger and nigga are usually[lower-alpha 1] pronounced the same.