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Vernacular is the native language of a country or a locality. In general linguistics, it is used to describe local languages as opposed to lingua francas, official standards or global languages. It i...
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vernacular n. The standard native language of a country or locality. The everyday language spoken by a people as distinguished from the literary ... A Vernacular, mother tongue or mother language, and less frequently one sense of idiom[1] and dialect,[2] is the native language of a population located in a country or in...
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Specifically, the standard native language of a country or locality. More loosely, it is used to mean the slang, argot or jargon of a particular group. More specifically, 'vernacular' is the street talk of a native language. English is a na...
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Vernacular Chinese - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vernacular Chinese is a style or register of the written Chinese language essentially modeled after the spoken language and associated with Standard Mandarin. This term is not to be confused with the...
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vernacular - a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo" ... colloquial or informally conversational vernacular speech/language. ... 2. Using the native language of a region, especially as distinct from the literary language: a vernacular poet.
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As Liturgiam Authenticam, the major Holy See Document that gives directives on translations, insists: "The translation of the liturgical texts of the Roman Liturgy is not so much a work of creative innovation as it is of rendering the original texts faithfully and accurately into the vernacular language" (n. 20).
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Encyclopedia article about Vernacular language. Information about Vernacular language in the Columbia Encyclopedia, Computer Desktop Encyclopedia, computing dictionary. ... (redirected from Vernacular language)
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The Rise of the Vernacular Language in the Late Middle Ages ... The political stability achieved by the success of the feudal aristocracy created an increased demand for literacy and education which led to an intellectual revival that further hastened the decline of Latin as a living language.
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Latin and the Vernacular Languages ... The growth of the Roman state was accompanied by the spread of the Latin language, which came to be widely used throughout the Mediterranean world. In the western half of the Empire Latin eventually became the dominant language.
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