vernacular
noun
[ vəˈnakjʊlə ]
• the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region.
• "he wrote in the vernacular to reach a larger audience"
Similar:
everyday language,
spoken language,
colloquial speech,
native speech,
conversational language,
common parlance,
non-standard language,
jargon,
-speak,
cant,
slang,
idiom,
argot,
patois,
dialect,
regional language,
local tongue,
regionalism,
localism,
provincialism,
lingo,
local lingo,
patter,
geekspeak,
idiolect,
Opposite:
formal language,
Latin,
• architecture concerned with domestic and functional rather than public or monumental buildings.
• "buildings in which Gothic merged into farmhouse vernacular"
vernacular
adjective
• (of language) spoken as one's mother tongue; not learned or imposed as a second language.
• (of architecture) concerned with domestic and functional rather than public or monumental buildings.
• "vernacular buildings"
Origin:
early 17th century: from Latin vernaculus ‘domestic, native’ (from verna ‘home-born slave’) + -ar1.
