vernacular

• adj. 国語；地方語；現地語で書かれたもの
• n. 母国語、方言; 植物や動物の一般名。

ラテン語のverna、家事使用人、特に主人の家で生まれた使用人の子孫から派生して、native、localとなり、後に地方語、すなわち方言を指すのに使われるようになった。家族を比較する。

vernacular (adj.)

c. 1600, "native to a country," from Latin vernaculus "domestic, native, indigenous; pertaining to home-born slaves," from verna "home-born slave, native," a word of Etruscan origin. Used in English in the sense of Latin vernacula vocabula, in reference to language. As a noun, "native speech or language of a place," from 1706.

For human speech is after all a democratic product, the creation, not of scholars and grammarians, but of unschooled and unlettered people. Scholars and men of education may cultivate and enrich it, and make it flower into the beauty of a literary language; but its rarest blooms are grafted on a wild stock, and its roots are deep-buried in the common soil. [Logan Pearsall Smith, "Words and Idioms," 1925]

1. There are many strange words in the vernacular of the lawyers.

弁護士の用語には奇妙な字がある。

2.Most of these new sermons were recorded in literary Sanskrit rather than in vernacular language.

これらの新しい布原稿の大部分は方言ではなくサンスクリット語で書かれている。

3.To use the vernacular of the period,Peter was square.

その時の土語で言えば、ピーターは昔かたぎだった。

4.Paraphrase the ancient Chinese prose in vernacular language.

この古文を白話文に訳した。

5.He speaks an incomprehensible vernacular .

彼は聞き取れない方言を話している。