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Borean

Borean proper noun: hypothetical linguistic macrofamily that encompasses almost all language families worldwide except those native to sub-Saharan Africa, New Guinea, Australia, and the Andaman Islands.

Proper noun

Borean

  1. Hypothetical linguistic macrofamily that encompasses almost all language families worldwide except those native to sub-Saharan Africa, New Guinea, Australia, and the Andaman Islands.
    Synonyms:
    Boreal, Boraelan

Synonyms of Borean

Questions about Borean

What does Borean mean?
Borean means hypothetical linguistic macrofamily that encompasses almost all language families worldwide except those native to sub-Saharan Africa, New Guinea, Australia, and the Andaman Islands.
What part of speech is Borean?
Borean is a proper noun.

Words near Borean in the dictionary

  1. boreal owls
  2. borealian
  3. borealization
  4. boreally
  5. borealoside
  6. Borean
  7. Boreanaz
  8. boreas
  9. boreases
  10. boreaspidid
  11. boreaspidids

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