0 the form of a language that a particular group of speakers use naturally, especially in informal situations: --
The second movement had extremes of refined string sound and robust wind playing, positioning high art next to the vernacular.
Many Roman Catholics regret the replacing of the Latin mass by the vernacular.
The Spanish I learned at school is very different from the local vernacular of this Mexican village.
1 using the form of a language that a particular group of speakers use naturally, especially in informal situations: --
B.B. King was a musical genius who soaked up the multiple influences of America's vernacular music.
He went on to raise the vernacular practice of animal painting to extraordinary heights.
Wright's prairie houses derived from American vernacular traditions.
His lively vernacular style goes down well with younger viewers.
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: --
Urban vernaculars have been studied and analyzed with respect to urban contexts almost exclusively.
The double morphological forms illustrate the variation within urban vernaculars.
Generally, the use of these vernaculars was independent of people's religious affiliation.
Rather, its local vernaculars cemented distance between the mass of urban society and an emergent middle-class political and cultural elite.
A substantial and rising proportion of women could be reached by information in the trade language and vernaculars.
The present study compares the phoneme isolation performance of two groups of children speaking two different regional vernaculars.
Thus, the potential for this kind of reversal is always likely to be present in vernaculars.
By trying to claim the local vernaculars as government property, the administration simply cut itself off from the people it would rule.
