Parlance vs. Vernacular — What's the Difference?

A particular manner of speaking; idiom

A vernacular or vernacular language refers to the language or dialect that is spoken by people that are inhabiting a particular country or region. The vernacular is typically the native language, normally spoken informally rather than written, and seen as of lower status than more codified forms.

Speech, especially a conversation or parley.

The language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region

A certain way of speaking, of using words; especially that associated with a particular job or interest.

Architecture concerned with domestic and functional rather than public or monumental buildings

Of a word, the quality of being lexicalized; especially as jargon or slang.

(of language) spoken as one's mother tongue; not learned or imposed as a second language.

Speech, discussion or debate.

(of architecture) concerned with domestic and functional rather than public or monumental buildings

Conversation; discourse; talk; diction; phrase; as, in legal parlance; in common parlance.

The everyday language spoken by a people as distinguished from the literary language.

A manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language

A variety of such everyday language specific to a social group or region

The specialized vocabulary of a particular trade, profession, or group

The common, nonscientific name of a plant or animal.

Native to or commonly spoken by the members of a particular country or region.

Using the native language of a region, especially as distinct from the literary language

Relating to or expressed in the native language or dialect.

Of or being an indigenous building style using local materials and traditional methods of construction and ornament, especially as distinguished from academic or historical architectural styles.

Occurring or existing in a particular locality; endemic

Relating to or designating the common, nonscientific name of a biological species.

The language of a people or a national language.

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

Language unique to a particular group of people.

A language lacking standardization or a written form.

Indigenous spoken language, as distinct from a literary or liturgical language such as Ecclesiastical Latin.

(architecture) A style of architecture involving local building materials and styles, not imported.

Of or pertaining to everyday language, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.

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

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

(art) Connected to a collective memory; not imported.

Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous; - now used chiefly of language; as, English is our vernacular language.

The vernacular language; one's mother tongue; often, the common forms of expression in a particular locality, opposed to literary or learned forms.

A characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves);

The everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)

Being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language;