Macrolanguage

//ˈmækɹəʊˌlæŋɡwɪdʒ//

Synonyms for "macrolanguage"

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Polish

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  • makrojęzyk noun (dialect continuum)
  • makrojęzyk noun (group of mutually intelligible speech varieties that have no traditional name in common)
  • makrojęzyk noun (book-keeping device by ISO)

Spanish

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  • macroidioma noun (book-keeping device by ISO)
  • macrolengua noun (book-keeping device by ISO)

Vietnamese

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  • ngôn ngữ vĩ mô noun (dialect continuum)
  • ngôn ngữ vĩ mô noun (book-keeping device by ISO)

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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.

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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.

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A linguist working with the criterion of mutual intelligibility would recognize six languages in central and western Victoria, most of them covering large areas. These widespread languages would not have been recognized as languages by the speakers themselves and they have no native name. The largest macrolanguage covers most of western Victoria north of Ballarat and Hamilton.

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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 [ISO 639-3]. For purposes of [ISO 639-3], they are considered to be macrolanguage code elements.

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