vernacular
தாய்மொழிப்
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.
translation of 'vernacular'
நாட்டு(அ)மாவட்ட மொழி
example
As is the custom in Indian 'vernacular' architecture, Barefoot College courtyards are highly decorated at ground level.
And a distinctive style it is: the romantic, aspiring skyscrapers our cover evokes are the true New York architectural 'vernacular' .
No record remains of the education that gave Chaucer lifelong familiarity with Latin and several 'vernacular' languages and literatures.
If anything, it responds to an entirely different 'vernacular' - that of the campus's former function as an air base.
They wrote in Latin as well as in their various 'vernacular' dialects.
Most of the houses are bungalows or two-storey buildings, and all will be built in keeping with Arran's architectural 'vernacular' .
‘X far from fulfils the promise of Y’ is not a 'vernacular' construction - nobody talks like that.
Cain's solution reinterprets plain-style southern farm 'vernacular' and ‘shotgun’ housing in a contemporary way.
Publishing of books in 'vernacular' languages still dominates the domestic industry.
As a painting student, I wanted to reference the landscape and things in the landscape, mostly the 'vernacular' architecture, in my painting.
The rural 'vernacular' , for example, is appropriated not for its romantic idealism but for its structural and economic efficiency.
Did these 'vernacular' languages suffer because the writers did not use their mother tongues to flesh their work?
Packed with wisdom, 'vernacular' language, and family lore, Redemption Song is a story about the curative power of love.
The list for 2005 includes buildings that range from modest to grand, from 'vernacular' to modern.
Lewis and her editor have created a magazine for ‘insiders’ - or, to use the tired fashion 'vernacular' , the ‘in - crowd’.
Moffatt exploits the cultural resonance of photographic style by working in a variety of 'vernacular' traditions.
At a sitting of the local court a defendant used popular 'vernacular' speech while being cross examined by the solicitor.
On the one hand, you have an absurdly hyped, burgeoning pop star who strikes rebel poses and affects scenester fashion and 'vernacular' .
Assets then passed as a technical term into the 'vernacular' .
Using NWA's original lyrics, Hack has no opportunity to parody the hip hop 'vernacular' , as these rejected video scripts would appear to do.
I don't think so - not in the popular 'vernacular' sense of that expression.
The introduction of a narrator, speaking in the 'vernacular' , only reinforces this separation.
This is an example of a pattern that is half a millennium old, and is still potent in the 'vernacular' as well as in formal usage.
They introduced rhythm and rhyme into medieval poetry and wrote both in Latin and in the 'vernacular' .
I identified with his heroes, laughed at his jokes, loved the 'vernacular' power and rhythm of his prose.
The type of estuary English that most broadcasters (certainly most broadcasters under 40) speak has become the 'vernacular' of the age.
Mellors is capable of approximating the language of his lord and lady; but for him, ordinary English is the 'vernacular' .
Most of the town's new developments fit quietly into the local 'vernacular' , but some architects are trying to break the mould.
Of that half, translations from French lead the next-most-frequent 'vernacular' language, Italian, by a ratio of about six to one.
The image of sustainable architecture has tended to be of 'vernacular' buildings in a rural Arcadia.
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