folk vs provincial

folk

adj
  • Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a land, their culture, tradition, or history. 

  • Of or pertaining to common people as opposed to ruling classes or elites. 

  • Of or related to local building materials and styles. 

  • Believed or transmitted by the common people; not academically correct or rigorous. 

noun
  • People in general. 

  • The inhabitants of a region, especially the native inhabitants. 

  • One’s relatives, especially one’s parents. 

  • A particular group of people. 

provincial

adj
  • Of or pertaining to a province. 

  • Not cosmopolitan; backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude 

  • Narrow; illiberal. 

  • Constituting a province. 

  • Limited in outlook; narrow. 

  • Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province. 

  • Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical. 

noun
  • A country bumpkin. 

  • A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial. 

  • A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order. 

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