- A
macrofamily (also
called a
superfamily or superphylum) is a term
often used in
historical linguistics to
refer to a
hypothetical higher order grouping...
- Dene–Daic, the
latter consisting of the Dené–Caucasian and
Austric macrofamilies.
Starostin tentatively dates the
Borean proto-language to the Upper...
- and the
Philippine Negrito languages Manide and
Umiray Dumagat Several macrofamily schemes have been
proposed for
linking multiple language families of...
- "Korean–****anese–Ainu". Some
proposals group Eurasiatic with even
larger macrofamilies, such as Nostratic; again, many
other professional linguists regard...
-
According to Starostin, the Dené–Caucasian and
Austric macrofamilies,
together with the
Nostratic macrofamily (as
envisaged by
Vladislav Illich-Svitych, with...
- mathematically. Pedersen's
original Nostratic proposal synthesized earlier macrofamilies, some of which,
including Indo-Uralic,
involved extensive comparison...
- been
sufficient evidence to
conclude the
existence of
either of
these macrofamilies. The
shared characteristics between the
languages are
attributed presently...
-
arguments as part of
their general argument that the
spread of
linguistic macrofamilies (such as Indo-European, Bantu, and Austro-Asiatic) can be ****ociated...
- in 2006, who also
included the ****onic and
Koreanic languages in the
macrofamily. The
proposal has
since been
adopted by
linguists such as
George van...
-
linking Austronesians with
other linguistic families into
linguistic macrofamilies that are
relevant to the
identity of the pre-Austronesian po****tions...
