Dictionary

macrophylum en · NOUN

Etymology

From macro- + phylum.

Meanings

1. A group of two or more related language phylums
   • 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. 2008, Alicia Sanchez-Mazas, Roger Blench, Malcolm D. Ross ·, Past Human Migrations in East Asia:
   • Chamorro is an isolate within the Western Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian macrophylum. 2015, Matthew Baerman, The Oxford Handbook of Inflection, page 465:
   • 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. 2007, Word, volume 58, page 80:

Forms