Common speech variety of a specific population, as opposed to standard, national, literary or scientific idiom, or a lingua franca.
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There also the vernacular language is spoken with the greatest purity.
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It is worthy of remark, that not a single lecture is delivered in the vernacular language of the country.
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As Febvre has shown, a vernacular language such as French lacked either the vocabulary or the syntax for scepticism.
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Already in 1215 itself the Charter had been translated from Latin into French, the vernacular language of the nobility.
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It is a feat that marks the first time an app of this kind has been translated into an African vernacular language.
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It appears that, both by himself and by his contemporaries, these were far more highly valued than his compositions in the vernacular language.
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One was a very badly executed attempt to revive Irish as the main vernacular language -a policy that arguably did more harm than good.
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One of the major changes it ushered in was the saying of the Mass in vernacular languages.
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No other media organisation comes close to reaching the millions of voters in rural areas -particularly in vernacular languages.
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A Fijian academic is calling for the recruitment and training of indigenous language activists to save the country's vernacular languages.
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AKA would also like to make English hip-hop more acceptable across Africa by collaborating with artists who perform in vernacular languages.
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Greek, of course, was not taught, the vernacular languages of Europe were not studied, and neither science nor history enjoyed the esteem of the learned.