Vernacular is the ordinary, informal, spoken form of language (though possibly written), particularly when perceived as being of lower social status in...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

Vernacular orientation refers to the status that a language is afforded by one of its mother-tongue speakers (Tiessen, 2003). This status is exhibited...

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

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

The term vernacular photography is used in several related senses. Each is in one way or another meant to contrast with received notions of fine-art photography...

vernacular dances are usually learned naturally without formal instruction. along with other concepts of vernacular culture. The word 'vernacular' is...

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...

Nigga (/ˈnɪɡə/) is a colloquial and vulgar term used in African-American Vernacular English that began as a dialect form of the word nigger, an ethnic slur...

In British India, the Vernacular Press Act (1878) was enacted to curtail the freedom of the Indian press and prevent the expression of criticism toward...

Vernacular culture is the cultural forms made and organised by ordinary, often indigenous people, as distinct from the high culture of an elite. One feature...

Scottish Vernacular architecture is a form of vernacular architecture that uses local materials. In Scotland, as elsewhere, vernacular architecture employs...

folkloristics, folk religion, popular religion, traditional religion, or vernacular religion comprises various forms and expressions of religion that are...

Indian vernacular architecture the informal, functional architecture of structures, often in rural areas of India, built of local materials and designed...

Varieties of Arabic (or dialects or vernacular languages) are the linguistic systems that Arabic speakers speak natively. Arabic is a Semitic language...

Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular was a peer-reviewed online academic journal published by the USC School of Cinematic...

In the Vernacular (stylised as in the ver•nac‘u•lar) is the debut album led by saxophonist John Handy III featuring tracks recorded in 1958 and originally...

pronunciation and structure. Medieval Greek is the link between this vernacular, known as Koine Greek, and Modern Greek. Though Byzantine Greek literature...

types, styles, or genres of dance. For older and more region-oriented vernacular dance styles, see List of ethnic, regional, and folk dances by origin...

the 9th century. Considerable variation exists in all of the Romance vernaculars as to their actual use:[citation needed] in Romanian, the articles are...

researcher Frank R. Ross, who correctly replaced the old stereotyped "vernacular" (native or natural) definition of African-American dance with its correct...

commonly, it refers to a dialect continuum ranging from African-American Vernacular English to a more standard American English. Like all widely spoken language...

more recent terms within American linguistics include "Southern White Vernacular English" and "Rural White Southern English". Speech example An example...

by natural social interaction. A street dance is a vernacular dance in an urban context. Vernacular dances are often improvisational and social in nature...

vulgari eloquentia (On Eloquence in the Vernacular) was one of the first scholarly defenses of the vernacular. His use of the Florentine dialect for works...