vernacular
/v rnakyoolr/ • noun 1 the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people of a country or region. 2 informal the specialized terminology of a group or activity. • adjective 1 spoken as or using one’s mother tongue rather than a second language. 2 (of architecture) concerned with domestic and functional rather than monumental buildings. — ORIGIN from Latin vernaculus ‘domestic, native’.
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