vernacular
നാട്ടു
definition
noun
he wrote in the vernacular to reach a larger audience
the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region.
buildings in which Gothic merged into farmhouse vernacular
architecture concerned with domestic and functional rather than monumental buildings.
adjective
Instead it will become regarded historically as a document that knowingly accelerated the demise of vernacular language usage in the Northern Territory.
(of language) spoken as one's mother tongue; not learned or imposed as a second language.
This activity can remind us that vernacular architecture is one cornerstone of our identity.
(of architecture) concerned with domestic and functional rather than monumental buildings.
example
For a time most of them wrote in Latin, but they surely did their thinking in the 'vernacular' .
The type of estuary English that most broadcasters (certainly most broadcasters under 40) speak has become the 'vernacular' of the age.
It is predominantly an adaptation of Cotswold 'vernacular' architecture with pure arts and crafts embellishments.
The rural 'vernacular' , for example, is appropriated not for its romantic idealism but for its structural and economic efficiency.
Previously you would be fined Rs 5 for speaking in the 'vernacular' in school; now you are threatened with expulsion.
The juxtaposition of an austere exterior and grand interior is characteristic of the local 'vernacular' tradition.
Most of the houses are bungalows or two-storey buildings, and all will be built in keeping with Arran's architectural 'vernacular' .
They introduced rhythm and rhyme into medieval poetry and wrote both in Latin and in the 'vernacular' .
Both were presidents of the Upper Wharfedale Field Society and involved in 'vernacular' architecture.
Using NWA's original lyrics, Hack has no opportunity to parody the hip hop 'vernacular' , as these rejected video scripts would appear to do.
However, the 'vernacular' which is spoken in most informal and family contexts is Creole.
Sadly, traditional 'vernacular' is either dying or dead - with the ironic exception of the five star coral stone and thatch beach-hotels.
There exist many anomalies in Zambian 'vernacular' architecture.
My familiarity with the richness and variety of 'vernacular' language inevitably led me to become a proponent of orality in literacy.
The 'vernacular' languages have been introduced as the media of instruction.
And a distinctive style it is: the romantic, aspiring skyscrapers our cover evokes are the true New York architectural 'vernacular' .
Can we discern here an eye to the richly sensitised and widely available storehouses of our 'vernacular' literature?
Not only does Hurston allow rural Black Floridians to tell their own folktales, but she presents their tales in Black 'vernacular' speech.
The key point to remember is that biological altruism cannot be equated with altruism in the everyday 'vernacular' sense.
It is, in the comic book 'vernacular' , a superhero ‘origin’ story, and represents one of the most unique and credible ones ever brought to the screen.
The introduction of English words into the 'vernacular' dialects will gradually diminish the distance between the scientific and popular language.
Using the vernacular means the church, when it teaches the language, teaches the 'vernacular' .
If anything, it responds to an entirely different 'vernacular' - that of the campus's former function as an air base.
There are early monuments of 'vernacular' literature from the Middle Ages, as well, that enlighten the study of medieval Europe as a whole.
As a result, most children in Kenya are fluent in both languages, in addition to the 'vernacular' spoken at home.
Informed by simple rural 'vernacular' buildings, Sydney's Equestrian Centre forms part of a new regional park.
Rather than looking to the immediate local for its architectural reference, Voyager looks across the Indian Ocean to the Cape Dutch 'vernacular' .
I hope that others can assemble the jagged rhythms of my stories to unlearn common misperceptions about 'vernacular' English.
At a sitting of the local court a defendant used popular 'vernacular' speech while being cross examined by the solicitor.
Playful terms transfer the 'vernacular' of the laboratory to the more formal written language of publications.
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