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The language of a people or a national language.

Example: A vernacular of the United States is English.

Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.

Example: Street vernacular can be quite different from what is heard elsewhere.

Language unique to a particular group of people; jargon, argot.

Example: For those of a certain age, hiphop vernacular might just as well be a foreign language.

A language lacking standardization or a written form.

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 nature; native; indigenous.

Example: a vernacular disease

Of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported.

Connected to a collective memory; not imported.