Indigene vs Vernacular - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between indigene and vernacular

is that indigene is indigenous while vernacular is of or pertaining to everyday language.

is that indigene is indigenous person, native, indigene while vernacular is the language of a people or a national language.

(en adjective)

(obsolete) Indigenous.

(en noun)

An indigenous person; a native.

* 2005 , (Christopher Hitchens), "André Malraux: One Man's Fate", New York Times Book Review , 10 Apr 2005:

The price for all this chutzpah was that Malraux then had to take up the cause of the colonial indigenes as if it really mattered to him.

(wikipedia vernacular)

(en noun)

The language of a people or a national language.

''A vernacular of the United States is English.

Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to literary, liturgical, or scientific language.

Street vernacular can be quite different from what is heard elsewhere.

Language unique to a particular group of people; jargon, argot.

For those of a certain age, hiphop vernacular might just as well be a foreign language.

(Roman Catholicism) The indigenous language of a people, into which the words of the Mass are translated.

Vatican II allowed the celebration of the mass in the vernacular .

* (language unique to a group) argot, jargon, slang

* (national language) lingua franca

(en adjective)

Of or pertaining to everyday language.

Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous.

a vernacular disease

(architecture) of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported

(art) is connected to a collective memory; not imported

* (of everyday language) common, everyday, indigenous, ordinary, vulgar * (architecture) folk