a group of individual languages which are closely related to each other and are considered as a single language in certain contexts. Chinese is a macrolanguage with Cantonese and Mandarin as the individual languages.This meaning is based on one submitted to the Open Dictionary from United Kingdom on 29/05/2015
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Language groups and relating to specific languages
Bantu
Dravidian
Germanic
macrolanguage
noun countable linguistics
US /ˈmækroʊˌlæŋɡwɪdʒ/
Word Forms
singular
macrolanguage
plural
macrolanguages
DEFINITIONS1
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a group of individual languages which are closely related to each other and are considered as a single language in certain contexts. Chinese is a macrolanguage with Cantonese and Mandarin as the individual languages.This meaning is based on one submitted to the Open Dictionary from United Kingdom on 29/05/2015
Synonyms and related words
Language groups and relating to specific languages