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Macrolanguages, the Challenges of Language Categorization
Often we group languages into macrolanguages like Chinese (zh), Malay (my) and Cree (cr). Depending on the context it is useful to have these groupings. However their constituent languages are often not mutually intelligible and in can cause communities to reject translations and services translated too broadly. We will discuss language families, dialects, and all that are in between and how it impacts your localization use cases.