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Of or pertaining to everyday language, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom. / Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature.

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vernacular

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vernacular

IPA(Pronunciation)

/vəˈnækjələ/

Adjective

Of or pertaining to everyday language, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom. / Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature.

Japanese Meaning

日常の、口語の (標準語、文学語、聖典語、または科学語などと対比される) / 生まれ故郷に固有の、その土地で生まれ育った

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The novelist's vernacular dialogue gave the characters a vivid, authentic voice.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

その小説家が会話で日常語を用いたことで、登場人物たちに生き生きとした本物の声が宿った。

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Of or pertaining to everyday language, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.

There are blacktips, silvertips, bronze whalers, black whalers, spinner sharks, and bignose sharks. These of course are vernacular names, but this is one case where the scientific nomenclature does not clarify the species, since it is now being revised.

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