Dialect vs. Vernacular

Dialectnoun

(linguistics) A variety of a language that is characteristic of a particular area, community, or group, often differing from other varieties of the same language in minor ways as regards vocabulary, style, spelling and pronunciation.

Dialectnoun

(pejorative) Language that is perceived as substandard or wrong.

Dialectnoun

A language (often a regional or minority language) as part of a group or family of languages, especially if they are viewed as a single language, or if contrasted with a standardized variety that is considered the 'true' form of the language (for example, Cantonese as contrasted with Mandarin Chinese, or Bavarian as contrasted with German).

Dialectnoun

A variant of a non-standardized programming language.

Dialectnoun

(ornithology) A variant form of the vocalizations of a bird species restricted to a certain area or population.

Dialectnoun

Means or mode of expressing thoughts; language; tongue; form of speech.

Dialectnoun

The form of speech of a limited region or people, as distinguished from ether forms nearly related to it; a variety or subdivision of a language; speech characterized by local peculiarities or specific circumstances; as, the Ionic and Attic were dialects of Greece; the Yorkshire dialect; the dialect of the learned.

Dialectnoun

the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people;

Dialectnoun

a particular form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group

Dialectnoun

a particular version of a programming language.

Dialect

The term dialect (from Latin dialectus, dialectos, from the Ancient Greek word διάλεκτος, diálektos 'discourse', from διά, diá 'through' and λέγω, légō 'I speak') can refer to either of two distinctly different types of linguistic phenomena: a variety of a language that is characteristic of a particular group of the language's speakers. Under this definition, the dialects or varieties of a particular language are closely related and are often mutually intelligible, especially if close to one another on the dialect continuum.

Vernacularnoun

The language of a people or a national language.

Vernacularnoun

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

Vernacularnoun

Language unique to a particular group of people; jargon, argot.

Vernacularnoun

(Roman Catholicism) The indigenous language of a people, into which the words of the Mass are translated.

Vernacularadjective

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

Vernacularadjective

Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous.

Vernacularadjective

(architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported.

Vernacularadjective

(art) Connected to a collective memory; not imported.

Vernacularadjective

Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous; - now used chiefly of language; as, English is our vernacular language.

Vernacularnoun

The vernacular language; one's mother tongue; often, the common forms of expression in a particular locality, opposed to literary or learned forms.

Vernacularnoun

a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves);

Vernacularnoun

the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)

Vernacularadjective

being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language;

Vernacularnoun

the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region

Vernacularnoun

the terminology used by people belonging to a specified group or engaging in a specialized activity

Vernacularnoun

architecture concerned with domestic and functional rather than public or monumental buildings

Vernacularadjective

(of language) spoken as one's mother tongue; not learned or imposed as a second language.

Vernacularadjective

(of speech or written works) using the mother tongue of a country or region

Vernacularadjective

(of architecture) concerned with domestic and functional rather than public or monumental buildings

Vernacular

A vernacular or vernacular language refers to the language or dialect that is spoken by people that are inhabiting a particular country or region. The vernacular is typically the native language, normally spoken informally rather than written, and seen as of lower status than more codified forms.