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Vernacular literature is literature written in the vernacular—the speech of the "common people".. In the European tradition, this effectively means literature not written in Latin nor Koine Greek.
Magtanim ay 'Di Biro (transl. "Planting rice is not a joke", [1] [a] and known in its English title as Planting Rice) [1] is a popular Tagalog folk song composed by Felipe de León. [ 2 ] [ disputed (for: conflict with source cited in talk) – discuss ] The song tells of the struggles of farmers, how one must twist and bend to plant rice in ...
Vernacular is the ordinary, informal, spoken form of language, [1] particularly when perceived as having lower social status or less prestige than standard language, which is more codified, institutionally promoted, literary, or formal.
Part of map 72 of the Atlas linguistique de la France, recording local forms meaning "today". Dialectologists record variation across a dialect continuum using maps of various features collected in a linguistic atlas, beginning with an atlas of German dialects by Georg Wenker (from 1888), based on a postal survey of schoolmasters.
Minangkabau architecture from West Sumatra, Indonesia, inspired by the shape of a buffalo horn English vernacular building, 16th-century half-timbering and later buildings, in the village of Lavenham, Suffolk A pair of single 1920s shotgun houses in the Campground Historic District of Mobile, Alabama