Meaning of macrophylum | Babel Free

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A group of two or more related language phylums

Examples

“In Table 3, this is executed synchronically for languages from all parts of the world with the exception of the Indo-European macrophylum, the Uralic macrophylum, and Creole languages, which are considered separately, below.”

“Bellwood (2005) has examined the question from an archaeologist's point of View, noting that the Austroasiatic and Miao-Yao families, either singly or together as a macrophylum, may have developed out of the first rice-farming societies of the mid=Yángzi valley.”

“Chamorro is an isolate within the Western Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian macrophylum.”

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