Vernacular example sentences

The emphasis on vernacular language and the collection of local folklore was not just to recover an ancient national spirit, but also to carry the modern nationalist message to large audiences who were mostly illiterate.Colonial administrators found 'vernacular' novels a valuable source of information on native life and customs.A novel may take a classical language and combine it with the language of the streets and make them all a part of the vernacular that it uses.The development of the vernaculars, print and a reading public helped in this process.This style was quickly replaced by Bankim's prose which was Sanskritised but also contained a more vernacular style.The novel uses the vernacular, the language that is spoken by common people.