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Definition macrolanguage in British English

macrolanguage noun

[countable] noun
/ˈmækrəʊˌlæŋɡwɪdʒ/
1

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.

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Definition macrolanguage in British English