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macrophylum
macrophylum n. 
/ˌmækroʊˈfaɪləm/ (also macro-phylum) a grouping of languages of a higher order than a phylum, i.e. including languages believed to be less closely related than those of one phylum.
Brit. /ˌmakrə(ʊ)ˈfʌɪləm/
, /ˌmakrə(ʊ)ˈfʌɪləm/U.S. /ˌmækrəˈfaɪləm/
, /ˌmækrəˈfaɪləm//ˌmækroʊˈfaɪləm/ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > a language > [noun] > family of languages
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Rhaeto-Etruscan1939
macrophylum1958
phylum1958
1958 H. Hoijer in R. H. Thompson Migrations in New World Culture Hist. 59 There is no indication that the families of a phylum, or the phyla of a macro-phylum, need be connected by clearly statable phonetic correspondences.
1977 C. F. Voegelin & F. M. Voegelin Classif. & Index World's Langs. 283 The four families and two language isolates which constitute the Macro-Panoan phylum are spread over a wide area from Peru eastward to Brazil and Bolivia and southward to Paraguay and Argentina.
1987 D. Crystal Cambr. Encycl. Lang. l. 292/2 It is evident, for example, that all the aboriginal languages of Australia..are related, but as there is no clear-cut historical evidence which bears on the matter.., scholars often refer to the Australian ‘(macro)phylum’ rather than to the Australian ‘family’.
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