Of or pertaining to everyday language, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
Near-synonyms: common, everyday, indigenous, ordinary, vulgar, colloquial, basilectal, demotic
From Latin vernāculus (“domestic, indigenous, of or pertaining to home-born slaves”), from verna (“a native, a home-born slave (one born in his master's house)”).
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Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or by nature.
Near-synonyms: native, indigenous; endemic
Of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported.