vernacular
Short definition from Wiktionary
Noun
- The language of a people or a national language.
- Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
- Language unique to a particular group of people.
- A language lacking standardization or a written form.
- Indigenous spoken language, as distinct from a literary or liturgical language such as Ecclesiastical Latin.
- A style of architecture involving local building materials and styles; not imported.
Adjective
- Of or pertaining to everyday language, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
- Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or by nature.
- Of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported.
- Connected to a collective memory; not imported.
- Not attempting to use the rules of a taxonomic code, especially, not using scientific Latin.
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