phylum has definitions from the fields of biology,linguistics
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[ noun ] (linguistics) a large group of languages that are historically related

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(A.L. Kroeber, "Semantic Contribution of Lexicostatistic...)

He has announced results on Hokan , Penutian , Uto-Aztecan , and almost all other American families and phyla , and has diagrammed their degree of interrelation ; but he has not worked_out by lexicostatistics one comprehensively complete classification of even a single family other_than Salish .

Related terms

social_group linguistics

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