Difference between Dialect and Vernacular

Dialect

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A variety of a language (specifically, often a spoken variety) that is characteristic of a particular area, community or group, often with relatively minor differences in vocabulary, style, spelling and pronunciation.

Vernacular

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Of or pertaining to everyday language.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The language of a people, a national language.Everyday speech, including colloquialisms, as opposed to literary or liturgical language.Language unique to a particular group of people; jargon, argot.The indigenous language of a people, into which the words of the Roman Catholic mass are translated.