VERNACULAR

Vernacular

A vernacular is the native language or native dialect of a specific population, as opposed to a language of wider communication that is a second language or foreign language to the population, such as a national language, standard language, or lingua franca.

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vernacular

Noun

  1. The language of a people, a national language.
    ''The vernacular of the United States is English.
  2. Everyday speech, including colloquialisms, as opposed to literary or liturgical language.
    Street vernacular can be quite different from what is heard elsewhere.
  3. Language unique to a particular group of people; jargon, argot.
    For those of a certain age, hiphop vernacular might just as well be a foreign language.
  4. The indigenous language of a people, into which the words of the Mass are translated.
    Vatican II allowed the celebration of the mass in the vernacular.

Adjective

  1. Of or pertaining to everyday language.
  2. Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous.
    a vernacular disease


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