macrolanguage

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1. (alternative spelling of)

2. 2006, G. Brent Hall and Michael G. Leahy, "Internet-Based Spacial Decision Support Using Open Source Tools", Chapter XIII of Shivanand Balram and Suzana Dragićević, ''Collaborative Geographic Information Systems'', Idea Group Inc., (ISBN), page 238:

Much of the emphasis in spatial decision-support research continues to focus on developing tools, typically using macrolanguage scripting exclusively or scripting linked to compilable programming and commercial geographic information system software, such as workstation Arc/Info and desktop ArcGIS.

3. A "language" by common usage, which is in fact a continuum consisting of widely varying varieties that may be distinct languages by the criterion of mutual intelligibility.

4. 1996, Bertil Tikkanen, "Languages of interethnic communication on the Indian Subcontinent (excluding Nepal)", in Stephen Adolphe Wurm et al. (editors), ''Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas'', Volume II.1, Walter de Gruyter, (ISBN), page 787:

The Indo-Aryan languages or macrolanguages of the plains merge into each other, being on the local level made up of enormous dialect continua (e.g. PANJABI-HINDI-BIHARI-RAJASTHANI-PAHARI). ¶ These fluid ‘macrolanguages’ (indicated by capital letters, e.g. HINDI) may have “dialects” which are mutually unintelligible and hard to classify.

5. A group of mutually intelligible speech varieties that have no traditional name in common, and which may be considered distinct languages by their speakers.

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7. A book-keeping device where – when a language as defined under the ISO 639-2 standard developed by the US Library of Congress, for the purpose of encoding the languages that published books are written in, does not correspond to a single language under the ISO 639-3 standard developed by the Summer Institute of Linguistics, for the purpose of listing all the world's languages in their publication ''Ethnologue'' – the ISO 639-2 language is assigned an ISO 639-3 code as a "macrolanguage".

8. (no date), ISO 639-3, ''Relationship between ISO 639-3 and the other parts of ISO 639''

Some existing code elements in ISO 639-2, and the corresponding code elements in ISO 639-1, are designated in those parts of ISO 639 as individual language code elements, yet are in a one-to-many relationship with individual language code elements in 639-3. For purposes of 639-3, they are considered to be macrolanguage code elements.

9. 2007, Jose A. Fadul (general editor), ''Encyclopedia Rizal|Rizaliana: Student Edition'', Lulu.com, (ISBN), page 6:

Modern Arabic is classified the ISO as a macrolanguage with 27 sub-languages spoken throughout the Arab world.

10. {{quote-book|en|year=2014|author=Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen; Andy Hancock|title=Learning Chinese in Diasporic Communities: Many pathways to being Chinese|publisher=John Benjamins Publishing Company|isbn=9789027270245|page=100