The difference between Dialect and Vernacular
When used as nouns, dialect means a variety of a language that is characteristic of a particular area, community or social group, often differing from other varieties of the same language in minor ways as regards vocabulary, style, pronunciation, and orthographic conventions, whereas vernacular means the language of a people or a national language.
Vernacular is also adjective with the meaning: of or pertaining to everyday language, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
check bellow for the other definitions of Dialect and Vernacular
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Dialect as a noun (linguistics):
A variety of a language that is characteristic of a particular area, community or social group, often differing from other varieties of the same language in minor ways as regards vocabulary, style, pronunciation, and orthographic conventions; either standard or nonstandard (vernacular).
Examples:
"hypo sociolect ethnolect regiolect"
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Dialect as a noun (pejorative):
Language that is perceived as substandard or wrong.
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Dialect as a noun:
A lect (often a or language) as part of a group or family of languages, especially if they are viewed as a single language, or if contrasted with a standardized idiom that is considered the 'true' form of the language (for example, Cantonese as contrasted with Mandarin Chinese, or Bavarian as contrasted with Standard German).
Examples:
"synonyms: vernacular patois q2=often derogatory"
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Dialect as a noun (computing, programming):
A variant of a non-standardized programming language.
Examples:
"Home computers in the 1980s had many incompatible dialects of BASIC."
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Dialect as a noun (ornithology):
A variant form of the vocalizations of a bird species restricted to a certain area or population.
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Vernacular as a noun:
The language of a people or a national language.
Examples:
"A vernacular of the United States is English."
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Vernacular as a noun:
Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
Examples:
"Street vernacular can be quite different from what is heard elsewhere."
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Vernacular as a noun:
Language unique to a particular group of people; jargon, argot.
Examples:
"For those of a certain age, hiphop vernacular might just as well be a foreign language."
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Vernacular as a noun (Roman Catholicism):
The indigenous language of a people, into which the words of the Mass are translated.
Examples:
"Vatican II allowed the celebration of the mass in the vernacular."
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Vernacular as an adjective:
Of or pertaining to everyday language, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
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Vernacular as an adjective:
Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous.
Examples:
"a vernacular disease"
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Vernacular as an adjective (architecture):
Of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported.
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Vernacular as an adjective (art):
Connected to a collective memory; not imported.