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- ISO_639_macrolanguage abstract "ISO 639-3 is an international standard for language codes. In defining some of its language codes, some are classified as macrolanguages, which include other individual languages in the standard. This category exists to assist mapping between another set of languages codes, ISO 639-2, and ISO 639-3. ISO 639-3 is curated by SIL International, ISO 639-2 is curated by the Library of Congress (USA).The mapping often has the implication that it covers borderline cases where two language varieties may be considered strongly divergent dialects or the same language or very closely related languages (dialect continuums). It may also encompass situations when there are language varieties that are sometimes considered to be the same and sometimes different languages for ethnic or political rather than linguistic reasons. However, this is not is primary function and it very important to recognise that it is not evenly applied. For example, "Chinese" is a macrolanguage encompassing many languages that are not mutually intelligible, but the languages "Standard German", "Bavarian German", and other closely related languages do not form a macrolanguage despite being more mutually intelligible. Other examples include Tajiki not being part of the Persian macrolanguage despite sharing much lexicon. and Urdu and Hindi not forming a macrolanguage. Basically, ISO 639-2 and ISO 639-3 use different criteria for dividing language varieties into languages, 639-2 use share writing system and literature more whereas 639-3 focuses on mutually intelligibility and shared lexicon. The macrolanguages exist within the ISO 639-3 code set to make mapping between the two sets easier.There are fifty-six language codes in ISO 639-2 that are considered to be macrolanguages in ISO 639-3. The use of this category of macrolanguage was applied in Ethnologue, starting in the 16th edition.Some of the macrolanguages had no individual language (as defined by 639-3) in ISO 639-2, e.g. "ara" (Arabic), but ISO 639-3 recognizes different varieties of Arabic as separate languages under some circumstances. Others, like "nor" (Norwegian) had their two individual parts (nno Nynorsk, nob Bokmål) already in 639-2. That means some languages (e.g. "arb" Standard Arabic) that were considered by ISO 639-2 to be dialects of one language ("ara") are now in ISO 639-3 in certain contexts considered to be individual languages themselves. This is an attempt to deal with varieties that may be linguistically distinct from each other, but are treated by their speakers as forms of the same language, e.g. in cases of diglossia. For example, Generic Arabic, 639-2 Standard Arabic, 639-3ISO 639-2 also includes codes for collections of languages; these are not the same as macrolanguages. These collections of languages are excluded from ISO 639-3, because they never refer to individual languages. Most such codes are included in ISO 639-5.".
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageExternalLink macrolanguages.asp.
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- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageOutDegree "820".
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageRevisionID "679885783".
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink A-Hmao_language.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Adamawa_Fulfulde.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Air_Tamajeq_language.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Akan_language.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Albanian_language.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Albarradas_Zapotec.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Algerian_Arabic.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Algerian_Saharan_Arabic.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Algonquin_language.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Aloápam_Zapotec.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Amatlán_Zapotec.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Ambo-Pasco_Quechua.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Amoy_dialect.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Ancient_Zapotec.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Angloromani.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Angloromani_language.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Anishinaabe_language.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Anishinaabe_language_dialects.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Antankarana_Malagasy.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Arabic.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Arabic_language.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Arbëresh_language.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Arbëreshë_Albanian.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Arequipa-La_Unión_Quechua.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Arvanitika.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Arvanitika_Albanian.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Assyrian_Neo-Aramaic.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Asunción_Mixtepec_Zapotec.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Atikamekw_language.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Ava_Guarani_language.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Ayacucho_Quechua.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Aymara_language.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Ayoquesco_Zapotec.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Ayoquezco_Zapotec.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Azerbaijani_language.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Babalia_Creole_Arabic.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Bacanese_Malay.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Bagirmi_Fulfulde.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Bagri_language.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Baharna_Arabic.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Bahrani_Arabic.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Balkan_Romani.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Balochi_language.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Baltic_Romani.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Baluchi_language.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Banjar_language.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Bara_Malagasy.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Barclayville_Grebo.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Bedawi_Arabic.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Beijing_dialect.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Berau_Malay.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Berau_Malay_language.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Bikol_language.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Bikol_languages.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Bilma_Kanuri.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Bokmål.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Bokoto.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Bontoc_language.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Bontok_language.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Borana-Arsi-Guji_Oromo_language.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Borgu_Fulfulde.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Bosnian_language.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Buhinon_Bikol.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Bukit_Malay.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Bukusu_dialect.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Bukusu_dialect_(Luhya).
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Bungee_language.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Bungi_Creole.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Buriat_language.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Buryat_language.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Cajamarca_Quechua.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Cajatambo_North_Lima_Quechua.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Cajonos_Zapotec.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Calderón_Highland_Quichua.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Caló_language.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Campidanese.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Campidanese_dialect.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Cantonese.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Carpathian_Romani.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Category:Dialectology.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Category:ISO_639.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Category:Language_versus_dialect.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Category:Languages.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Cañar_Highland_Quichua.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Central-Eastern_Niger_Fulfulde.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Central_African_Republic.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Central_Asian_Arabic.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Central_Aymara.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Central_Bicolano.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Central_Bikol_language.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Central_Bontok.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Central_Grebo.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Central_Hongshuihe_Zhuang.
- ISO_639_macrolanguage wikiPageWikiLink Central_Huishui_Hmong.