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Vernacular Language Movement Jeffrey Weng LAST MODIFIED: 28 OCTOBER 2020 DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780199920082-0180 Introduction The English term ‘vernacular language’ is more capacious than any of its Chinese equivalents. When discussing writing, the term is usually equated with baihua ( ), a word that now refers to the standard written language, but only gained that sense starting in the 1890s with the rise of vernacular newspapers. When discussing speech, the term now refers primarily to