In linguistics, a macrofamily is a proposed language family that unites two or more language families that are already recognized. "Macrofamily" is thus a relative term. It doesn't designate any particular size of language family or any particular depth of genetic relationship. Rather, it refers to theories of genetic relationship that are newly proposed or for whatever reason are not, or not yet, generally accepted. For example, Afro-Asiatic and Eurasiatic are both large language families dati… (More on Macrofamily)