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English

1. writings in the vernacular
2. vernacular style writing, as opposed to classical Chinese; this style resembles everyday Mandarin speech.

粵語 — Cantonese

1. 相對文言文；通常指五四運動之後，用北京話做標準嘅中文文體。用字同語法比較接近口語。又叫做語體文。（量詞：篇）

Examples

• 白話文比文言文易明白好多。

  The vernacular style Chinese writing is much easier to understand than classical style Chinese.