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Vernacular is the ordinary, informal, spoken form of language,[1] particularly when perceived as being of lower social status in contrast to standard language, which is more codified, institutional, literary, or formal.[a][3] More narrowly, a particular variety of a language that does not hold a widespread high-status perception, and sometimes even carries social stigma, is also called a vernacular, vernacular dialect, nonstandard dialect,[4][5] etc. and is typically its speakers' native variety. Despite any such stigma, modern linguistics regards all nonstandard dialects as full-fledged varieties of a language with their own consistent grammatical structure, sound system, body of vocabulary, etc.
vernacular: a social dialect with low prestige spoken by a lower-status group, with marked differences from the standard language.
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