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    vernacular
    /vəˈnakjʊlə/

    noun

    • 1. the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region: "he wrote in the vernacular to reach a larger audience"
    • 2. architecture concerned with domestic and functional rather than public or monumental buildings: "buildings in which Gothic merged into farmhouse vernacular"

    adjective

    • 1. (of language) spoken as one's mother tongue; not learned or imposed as a second language.
    • 2. (of architecture) concerned with domestic and functional rather than public or monumental buildings: "vernacular buildings"

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