MACROFAMILY

Macrofamily

In historical linguistics, a macro-family, also called a superfamily or phylum, is defined as a proposed genetic relationship grouping together language families in a larger scale classification. However, Campbell regards this term as superfluous, preferring language family for those classifications for which there are consensus and distant genetic relationship for those that are not, or not yet, generally accepted, whether due to lack of documentation or scholarship of the constituent languages, or to an estimated time depth thought by many linguists to be too great for reconstruction.

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macrofamily

Noun

  1. A grouping of two or more language families that share some relationship


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