Vernacular

Noun

 * 1) The language of a people, a national language.
 * ''The vernacular of the United States is English.
 * 1) Everyday speech, including colloquialisms, as opposed to literary or liturgical language.
 * Street vernacular can be quite different from what is heard elsewhere.
 * 1) Language 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.
 * 1)  The indigenous language of a people, into which the words of the Roman Catholic mass are translated.
 * Vatican II allowed the celebration of the mass in the vernacular.

Synonyms

 * argot, jargon, slang

Antonyms

 * lingua franca

Adjective

 * 1) Of or pertaining to everyday language.

Synonyms

 * common, everyday, indigenous, ordinary, vulgar

Thesaurus
Babbittish, Philistine, aboriginal, accustomed, ancient language, argot, austerity, autochthonous, average, baldness, bareness, bourgeois, campy, candor, cant, classical language, colloquial, colloquial speech, colloquial usage, colloquialism, common, common speech, commonplace, confined, conventional, conversational, conversationalism, current, customary, dead language, directness, easy, endemic, everyday, familiar, frankness, general, geographically limited, gibberish, gobbledygook, habitual, high-camp, homebred, homegrown, homely, homespun, household, household words, idiom, illiterate speech, indigenous, informal, informal English, informal language, informal speech, insular, jargon, kitschy, language, leanness, limited, lingo, living language, local, localized, low-camp, matter-of-factness, mother tongue, mumbo jumbo, natal, native, native language, native speech, native tongue, native-born, naturalness, nonstandard, normative, of a place, openness, ordinary, original, parent language, parochial, patois, patter, phraseology, plain, plain English, plain speaking, plain speech, plain style, plain words, plainness, plebeian, pop, popular, predominating, prescriptive, prevailing, primitive, prosaicness, prosiness, provincial, public, regional, regular, regulation, restrainedness, rustic style, scatology, severity, simple, simpleness, simplicity, slang, soberness, spareness, speech, spoken, spoken language, standard, starkness, stock, straightforward, straightforwardness, substandard, substandard language, taboo language, talk, topical, unadorned style, unadornedness, unaffectedness, uneducated, unimaginativeness, universal, unliterary, unpoeticalness, unstudied, usual, vernacularism, vocabulary, vulgar, vulgar language, vulgar tongue, vulgate, wonted

Etymology
From vernaculus: < verna:.

Noun

 * Danish: national sprog
 * Finnish: kansalliskieli
 * French: langue nationale
 * German: Amtssprache


 * Greek:, ντοπιολαλιά
 * Icelandic: þjóðtunga
 * Polish: język wernakularny, język rodzimy, język narodowy
 * Russian: народный язык, местный диалект
 * Turkish: ulusal dil


 * Chinese: 白话 (báihuà)
 * Danish: daglig tale
 * Dutch: volkstaal, omgangstaal, ,
 * Finnish: arkikieli, ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Interlingua: vernacular, lingua vulgar
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 方言 (hōgen)


 * Korean: (方言),
 * Latin: vernaculus, vernacularis
 * Norwegian: dagligtale
 * Polish: język wernakularny, język potoczny
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Telugu: (pranthiya)
 * Turkish: konuşma dili
 * Volapük: komunapük


 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,


 * Italian: ,
 * Polish: dialekt, narzecze
 * Russian: профессиональный жаргон
 * Spanish: ,


 * Finnish:
 * French: langue vulgaire


 * German: Volkssprache

Adjective

 * Finnish: arkikielinen, kansankielinen
 * French: en langage courant
 * Icelandic: þjóðtungu-
 * Italian:


 * Polish: wernakularny, rodzimy
 * Russian: (language of nationality), ; (non-literary language) просторечный, разговорный
 * Spanish: vernáculo