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Macrofamily
In historical linguistics, a macrofamily, also called a superfamily or phylum, is a proposed genetic relationship grouping together language families (also isolates) in a larger scale classification.〔Campbell, Lyle and Mixco, Mauricio J. (2007), ''A Glossary of Historical Linguistics'', University of Utah Press/Edinburgh University Press.〕〔Matthews, P.H. (2007), ''Oxford Concise Dictionary of Linguistics'', Oxford University Press.〕 However, Campbell〔Campbell, Lyle (2004), ''Historical Linguistics: An Introduction'', Edinburgh University Press.〕 regards this term as superfluous, preferring "language family" for those classifications for which there is consensus and "distant genetic relationship" for those for which there is no, or not yet, consensus, whether due to lack of documentation or scholarship of the constituent languages, or to an estimated time depth thought by many linguists to be too great for reconstruction.
More rarely, the term has also been applied to an exceptionally large language family, such as Afro-Asiatic.〔Diakonoff, Igor M. (1996), "Some reflections on the Afrasian linguistic macrofamily." ''Journal of Near Eastern Studies'' 55, 293–294.〕
Examples of proposed macro-families〔〔Trask, R.L. (2000), ''The Dictionary of Historical and Comparative Linguistics'', Edinburgh University Press.〕 range from relatively recent such as Macro-Jê, Macro-Waikurúan, Macro-Mayan, Macro-Siouan, Penutian, Na-Dene or Congo-Saharan (Niger-Saharan) to older ones such as Austric, Dené–Caucasian, Eurasiatic, Nostratic or Ural-Altaic.
==See also==
*Mother Tongue
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