German vs vernacular

German

noun
  • A member of a Germanic tribe. 

  • A prison warder 

  • A native or inhabitant of Germany; a person of German citizenship or nationality. 

  • A German wine. 

  • A member of the Germanic ethnic group which is the most populous ethnic group in Germany; a person of German descent. 

  • A Germany-produced car, a “German whip”. 

name
  • A number of townships in the United States, listed under German Township. 

  • A surname. 

  • An Indo-European (Indo-Germanic) language, primarily spoken in Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, South Tyrol, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and a small part of Belgium. 

adj
  • Of, in or relating to the German language. 

  • Of or relating to the nation of Germany. 

  • Of or relating to the natives or inhabitants of Germany; to people of German descent. 

vernacular

noun
  • Language unique to a particular group of people. 

  • A style of architecture involving local building materials and styles, not imported. 

  • A language lacking standardization or a written form. 

  • Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom. 

  • Indigenous spoken language, as distinct from a literary or liturgical language such as Ecclesiastical Latin. 

  • The language of a people or a national language. 

adj
  • Of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported. 

  • Connected to a collective memory; not imported. 

  • Of or pertaining to everyday language, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom. 

  • Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature. 

How often have the words German and vernacular occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )