non-standard speech vs vernacular

vernacular vs non-standard speech

non-standard speech and vernacular both are nouns.

non-standard speech is not an adjective while vernacular is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
non-standard speech	Yes	No	No	No
vernacular	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, vernacular is a hyponym of non-standard speech; that is, vernacular is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than non-standard speech:

non-standard speech: speech that differs from the usual accepted, easily recognizable speech of native adult members of a speech community
vernacular: the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)

Other hyponyms of non-standard speech include baby talk, babytalk, baby talk, babytalk, motherese, accent, dialect, idiom, localism, regionalism, telegraphese, argot, cant, jargon, lingo, patois, slang, slang, slang expression, slang term.

non-standard speech (noun)	vernacular (noun)
speech that differs from the usual accepted, easily recognizable speech of native adult members of a speech community	the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)
	a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)

non-standard speech (adjective)	vernacular (adjective)
	being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language

Difference between non-standard speech and vernacular

Words related to "vernacular"

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