0 the form of a language that a particular group of speakers use naturally, especially in informal situations:
The Spanish I learned at school is very different from the local vernacular of this Mexican village.
Many Roman Catholics regret the replacing of the Latin mass by the vernacular.
The second movement had extremes of refined string sound and robust wind playing, positioning high art next to the vernacular.
1 using the form of a language that a particular group of speakers use naturally, especially in informal situations:
His lively vernacular style goes down well with younger viewers.
Wright's prairie houses derived from American vernacular traditions.
He went on to raise the vernacular practice of animal painting to extraordinary heights.
B.B. King was a musical genius who soaked up the multiple influences of America's vernacular music.
2 the form of a language commonly spoken by the people of a particular region or by a particular group, esp. when it is different from the standard language:
They were also bending the vernaculars to their will and making them do new things.
The final chapters focus on education in and attitudes toward vernaculars.
Rather than drawing on reified colonial constructions, planning efforts should concentrate on urban vernaculars, which are inherently mixed.
Instead, as the influence of the language began to decline, several of the newly confident national vernaculars were already competing to take its place.
The second finding is that there is an indexical or even iconic relationship (as argued here) between vernaculars and masculinity.
The aim is to situate spoken vernaculars, and in particular their nonstandard features, within the context of their trajectory of development.
Because of the social significance of writing, the use of urban vernaculars in written form in particular may serve as a form of social legitimation.
By trying to claim the local vernaculars as government property, the administration simply cut itself off from the people it would rule.
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