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vernacular

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Noun

  1. The language of a people or a national language.
  2. Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
  3. Language unique to a particular group of people.
  4. A language lacking standardization or a written form.
  5. Indigenous spoken language, as distinct from a literary or liturgical language such as Ecclesiastical Latin.
  6. A style of architecture involving local building materials and styles; not imported.

Adjective

  1. Of or pertaining to everyday language, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
  2. Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or by nature.
  3. Of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported.
  4. Connected to a collective memory; not imported.
  5. Not attempting to use the rules of a taxonomic code, especially, not using scientific Latin.

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