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The language of a people or a national language.
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A vernacular of the United States is English.
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Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
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Street vernacular can be quite different from what is heard elsewhere.
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Language unique to a particular group of people; jargon, argot.
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For those of a certain age, hiphop vernacular might just as well be a foreign language.
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A language lacking standardization or a written form.
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Indigenous spoken language, as distinct from a literary or liturgical language such as Ecclesiastical Latin.
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Vatican II allowed the celebration of the mass in the vernacular.