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

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...

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

broader interest in sustainable design. As of 1986, even among scholars publishing in the field, the exact boundaries of "vernacular" have not been clear...

art music. Vernacular music may overlap with non-vernacular, particular in the context of musical commerce, and is often informed by the developments...

African-American (Vernacular) English), youse (found in Australian English), or ye (in Hiberno-English). In the third person, the they/them series of...

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

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

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...

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 dances are dances which have developed 'naturally' as a part of 'everyday' culture within a particular community. In contrast to the elite...

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...

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

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...

colloquial term in African-American Vernacular English that is considered vulgar in many contexts. It began as a dialect form of the word nigger, an ethnic...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

features specific to singular cities or regions only), in rural versus urban characteristics, in vernacular versus standard registers, etc. There has been a...

the countries of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. It is home to the fourth most spoken language in the...

Language developed from Liberian Interior Pidgin English, the Liberian version of West African vernacular English, though it has been significantly influenced...

dialects or vernacular languages) are the linguistic systems that Arabic speakers speak natively. Arabic is a Semitic language within the Afroasiatic...

developing vernacular Koine. By late antiquity, the gap had become impossible to ignore. In the Byzantine era, written Greek manifested itself in a whole...

as poetry, and in formal contexts, while colloquial readings (白读; 白讀; báidú) are used in everyday vernacular speech. For example, the character for 'white'...

Eloquence in the Vernacular) was one of the first scholarly defenses of the vernacular. His use of the Florentine dialect for works such as The New Life...