Vernacular is the ordinary, informal, spoken form of language, particularly when perceived as having lower social status or less prestige than standard...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

Nigga (/ˈnɪɡə/) is a colloquial term in African-American Vernacular English that is considered vulgar in many contexts. It began as a dialect form of the...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

New Mexico vernacular is a style of vernacular architecture. It developed from the c.1870s to c.1940s. One typical form is the one-story hipped box massing...

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

contexts, while colloquial readings (白读; 白讀; báidú) are used in everyday vernacular speech. For example, the character for 'white' (白) is normally read with...

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

Below is a list of vernacular/street dances, varying from traditional to modern electronic styles. List of ethnic, regional, and folk dances sorted by...

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...