macrophylum

1. (linguistics) A group of two or more related language phylumsExamples: "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."; "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."; "Chamorro is an isolate within the Western Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian macrophylum."