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...

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 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...

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

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

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...

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...

In British India, the Vernacular Press Act (1878), modelled on the Irish Press Laws, was enacted to curtail the freedom of the Indian press and prevent...

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...

also known as "the N-word", is a colloquial term in African-American Vernacular English that is considered vulgar in many contexts. It began as a dialect...

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

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...

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...

Folk religion, traditional religion, or vernacular religion comprises, according to religious studies and folkloristics, various forms and expressions...

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

Vernacular architecture in Norway covers about 4,000 years of archeological, literary, and preserved structures. Within the history of Norwegian architecture...

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

New London Vernacular is the name given to an architectural style of housing developments, observed in London, England, from about 2010. The style has...

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...

The vernacular architecture of the Carpathians draws on environmental and cultural sources to create unique designs. Vernacular architecture refers to...

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...

Masri (also Masry, lit. 'Egyptian') (مَصرى), is the most widely spoken vernacular Arabic variety in Egypt. It is part of the Afro-Asiatic language family...

Vulgar Latin, also known as Colloquial, Popular, Spoken or Vernacular Latin, is the range of non-formal registers of Latin spoken from the Late Roman Republic...

The Tibet Vernacular News (simplified Chinese: 西藏白话报; traditional Chinese: 西藏白話報; pinyin: Xīzàng báihuà bào, Tibetan: བོད་ཀྱི་ཕལ་སྐད་གསར་འགྱུར་, Wylie:...

shifted towards modern forms. Medieval Greek is the link between the older vernacular, known as Koine Greek, and Modern Greek. Though Byzantine Greek literature...

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