Vernacular vs Colloquial - What's the difference?
vernacular | colloquial |
The language of a people or a national language.
Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to literary, liturgical, or scientific language.
Language unique to a particular group of people; jargon, argot.
(Roman Catholicism) The indigenous language of a people, into which the words of the Mass are translated.
Of or pertaining to everyday language.
Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous.
(architecture) of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported
(art) is connected to a collective memory; not imported
(linguistics) Denoting a manner of speaking or writing that is characteristic of familiar conversation; informal.
Of or pertaining to a conversation; conversational or chatty.
As adjectives the difference between vernacular and colloquial
is that vernacular is of or pertaining to everyday language while colloquial is denoting a manner of speaking or writing that is characteristic of familiar conversation; informal.As a noun vernacular
is the language of a people or a national language.vernacular
English
(wikipedia vernacular)Noun
(en noun)- ''A vernacular of the United States is English.
- Street vernacular can be quite different from what is heard elsewhere.
- For those of a certain age, hiphop vernacular might just as well be a foreign language.
- Vatican II allowed the celebration of the mass in the vernacular .
Synonyms
* (language unique to a group) argot, jargon, slangAntonyms
* (national language) lingua francaAdjective
(en adjective)- a vernacular disease
