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1.nounThe language of a people or a national language."A vernacular of the United States is English."
2.nounEveryday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom."Street vernacular can be quite different from what is heard elsewhere."
3.nounLanguage unique to a particular group of people; jargon, argot."For those of a certain age, hiphop vernacular might just as well be a foreign language."
4.nounA language lacking standardization or a written form.
5.nounIndigenous spoken language, as distinct from a literary or liturgical language such as Ecclesiastical Latin."Vatican II allowed the celebration of the mass in the vernacular."
6.adjectiveOf or pertaining to everyday language, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
7.adjectiveBelonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous."a vernacular disease"
8.adjectiveOf or related to local building materials and styles; not imported.
9.adjectiveConnected to a collective memory; not imported.