vernacular

IPA: vɝnˈækjʌɫɝ

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.
(architecture) A style of architecture involving local building materials and styles; not imported.

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.
(architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported.
(art) Connected to a collective memory; not imported.
(taxonomy) Not attempting to use the rules of a taxonomic code, especially, not using scientific Latin.

Examples of "vernacular" in Sentences

For the Yankee vernacular is dying out of New England.
They know about their vaginas and all the rest, but our vernacular is vulva.
Ahhh, Yoda … his voice & vernacular is timeless … Thanks to Frank Oz. – Godspeed –
I think the vernacular is DRAMA QUEEN, showing up in a media hangout wearing red?!?
So he has a certain vernacular, and a certain way he needs to talk right now, Nagin said.
Further, African American vernacular is * not* only spoken by an urban underclass, and suggesting it is is insulting.
The next question intends to look at the respondents own private position on the question of whether the option to do the liturgical readings directly in the vernacular is a good or a bad thing.
By those days, they were comprised mostly of the lower class and emotionally disturbed, white trash in Southern vernacular, and led by middling merchants or farmers that were a little smarter than the rest.
The oral exams have already accomplished what they were supposed to -- I have a dissertation topic, even if to date my favorite way to express is "Time does weird things in vernacular texts dealing with the" English "nation in the periods immediately pre - and post-conquest."