vernacular

IPA(Pronunciation)

/vəˈnækjələ/

Noun

Japanese Meaning

その国や民族で日常的に使用される言語、または国民語。 / 標準語や文語、宗教的・科学的な用語とは対照的に、一般市民が日常的に使用する口語、あるいは方言

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Scholars studied the community's vernacular to better understand their traditions.

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学者たちはその共同体の母語を研究して、彼らの伝統をよりよく理解しようとした。

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The language of a people or a national language.

A vernacular of the United States is English.

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Sense（2）

Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.

Street vernacular can be quite different from what is heard elsewhere.

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Language unique to a particular group of people.

For those of a certain age, hiphop vernacular might just as well be a foreign language.

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A language lacking standardization or a written form.

Sense（5）

Indigenous spoken language, as distinct from a literary or liturgical language such as Ecclesiastical Latin.

Vatican II allowed the celebration of the mass in the vernacular.

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(architecture) A style of architecture involving local building materials and styles, not imported.

vernaculars

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