Nigga (/ˈnɪɡə/, pronounced identically to nigger in some dialects (including where common speech is non-rhotic; in rhotic dialects the latter is pronounced /ˈnɪɡər/) is a colloquial term used in Black English Vernacular that began as an eye dialect form of the word nigger (a word originated as a term used in a neutral context to refer to black people, as a variation of the Spanish/Portuguese noun negro, a descendant of
