Vernacular

The pitaya's common English name of "dragon fruit" reflects its vernacular name in many Asian languages.

He uttered an incomprehensible oath in the local vernacular before going on his way.

This is a vernacular.

The mix of Guarani and Spanish commonly used in the vernacular speech of Paraguay is called Jopara.

Kabyle is the Berber vernacular I use and I'll stick to it.

I write Berber in its Kabyle vernacular form.

This 21st of May of 2025 is a sunny, yet cloudy, day. I went walking in the morning to Tim Hortons café to enjoy an Iced Coffee with oat milk. The other day, I tried their pink-looking Pineapple Dragon Fruit Frozen Quencher. 'Twas more like icy candy for me! Later in the morning today, I went walking to the Roman Catholic church on St. Albans Road. On the way, I gazed at the big purple-bloom Empress Tree, near Bowcock Road. The blooms are starting to fade. In the big worship hall was a small class of little boys and girls, dressed in uniform, students practicing bowing at the altar and oration at the microphone. They looked like mostly Filipino kids, this time. It reminded of my private school days at La Salle Green Hills in the Philippines. Even then, our liturgical language was also English, as here on Lulu Island. It was despite that our household and street language was Tagalog. In the 1960s, the Church globally changed the liturgical language from Latin to the vernacular language. I remember my Thai Buddhist Temple in Vancouver—Wat Yanviriya. The wonderful liturgical language was Pali. It was the language that made the temple stay magical! We learned meditation, which is what I do in the church on St. Albans Road. I try to go when the big worship hall is mostly empty. At home, I try to learn more Esperanto vocabulary.

The principal vernacular of the United States is English.

The idea that the Bible should be translated into vernaculars was explosive in medieval society.

Near-synonyms: basilect, demotic