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Macrolanguage

speaker

Meaning

Noun

In Computing:
Alternative
of
(“system for
and
s”)
In Linguistics:
A "language" by common
, which is
a
that may be
by the
of
intelligibility.
In Linguistics:
A group of
that have no
, and which may be considered
by their speakers.
A
where – when
as
under the ISO 639-2
developed by the US Library of Congress, for the
of
the
that
are
in, does not
to a
language under the ISO 639-3
developed by the Summer Institute of Linguistics, for the
of
all the world's
in their
Ethnologue – the ISO 639-2 language is
an ISO 639-3
as a "macrolanguage".
Sourced from
Wiktionary

Origin

macrolanguage
English
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language
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Middle English (1100-1500)
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language
Old French (842-ca. 1400)
macro-
English
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Etym
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