Vernacular is the ordinary, informal, spoken form of language, particularly when perceived as being of lower social status in contrast to standard language...

African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) is the variety of English natively spoken, particularly in urban communities, by most working- and middle-class...

Vernacular architecture (also folk architecture) is building done outside any academic tradition, and without professional guidance. It is not a particular...

and dialects with th-stopping and th-fronting like African-American Vernacular and Estuary English do not have the dental fricatives /θ, ð/, but replace...

Look up vernacular in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Vernacular is the common speech variety of a specific population, as opposed to national, liturgical...

Vernacular music is ordinary, everyday music such as popular and folk music. It is defined partly in terms of its accessibility, standing in contrast to...

Vernacular literature is literature written in the vernacular—the speech of the "common people". In the European tradition, this effectively means literature...

In biology, a common name of a taxon or organism (also known as a vernacular name, English name, colloquial name, country name, popular name, or farmer's...

Written vernacular Chinese, also known as baihua, comprises forms of written Chinese based on the vernacular varieties of the language spoken throughout...

Vernacular geography is the sense of place that is revealed in ordinary people's language. Current research by the Ordnance Survey is attempting to understand...