macrophylumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

macrophylum (複数形 macrophyla)

1. (linguistics) A group of two or more related language phylums
   • 2007, Word (volume 58, page 80)

     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.

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

     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.