Colloquialism vs. Vernacular: What's the Difference?

Colloquial style or quality.

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

A colloquial expression.

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

A colloquial word or phrase; a common spoken expression.

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

Colloquial style of speaking.

The common, nonscientific name of a plant or animal.

A colloquial expression, not employed in formal discourse or writing.

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

A colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech

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;