macrophylum

plural macrophyla

1. human sciencesA group of two or more related language phylums

   Chamorro is an isolate within the Western Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian macrophylum.

   2015, Matthew Baerman, The Oxford Handbook of Inflection, page 465

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   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.

   2007, Word, volume 58, page 80

   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.

   2008, Alicia Sanchez-Mazas, Roger Blench, Malcolm D. Ross ·, Past Human Migrations in East Asia