Macrophylum
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Macrophylum is a noun meaning (linguistics) A group of two or more related language phylums.
Meaning
(linguistics) A group of two or more related language phylums.
Example Sentences
Chamorro is an isolate within the Western Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian macrophylum.
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.
Word Forms
- macrophyla
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include phylum, superphylum, macrophyte, subphylum, phyloclade, phyllobranchia.
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