Re: Macrolanguage (was: Forms for Montenegrin)

John Cowan <[email protected]>
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On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 12:48 PM, Peter Constable <[email protected]>
wrote:

I think I borrowed the term “macrolanguage” from David Dalby,
>
I didn't know that; I figured you had coined the term independently, since
the meanings are completely different.

(In Dalby's usage, _macrolanguage_ is a non-structural term meaning
'language with ten million speakers'.)

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