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Language macrofamilies is a category for books that explore proposed deep genetic relationships among languages beyond the established family level. These works survey, argue for, or critique long-range classifications that group multiple recognized families into higher-order clades—often reaching back tens of millennia—such as Nostratic, Sino-Caucasian, Austric, Trans-Eurasian/Altaic, Dené–Yeniseian, and more speculative ideas like Amerind or Proto-World. Books in this category examine evidentiary standards and methods, from the comparative method and morphological correspondences to mass lexical comparison, computational phylogenetics, and interdisciplinary clues from archaeology and genetics. Because these hypotheses are debated, the category includes both advocates and skeptics, guiding readers through the methods, controversies, and implications for human prehistory and deep linguistic history.

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