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ISO 639-3 defines some languages as macrolanguages. There are 56 languages in ISO 639-2 which are considered to be “macrolanguages” in 639-3 [1].
Some of these macrolanguages had no individual language as defined by 639-3 in ISO 639-2, e.g. 'ara'. Others like 'nor' had their two individual parts (nno,nob) already in 639-2.
That means some languages (e.g. 'arb') that were considered by ISO 639-2 to be dialects of one language ('ara') are now in ISO 639-3 in certain contexts considered to be individual languages themselves.
This is an attempt to deal with varieties that may be linguistically distinct from each other, but are treated by their speakers as forms of the same language, e.g. in cases of diglossia.
For example,
Generic Arabic, 639-2[2]
Standard Arabic, 639-3[3]

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List of macrolanguages

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List of macrolanguages

ISO 639-1	ISO 639-3	Number of forms	Language name
ak		2	Akan languages
ar		30	Arabic language
ay		2	Aymara language
az		2	Azerbaijani language
(-)		3	Baluchi language
(-)		5	Bikol language
(-)		3	Buriat language
(-)		2	Mari language (Russia)
cr		6	Cree language
(-)		2	Delaware language
(-)		2	Slave language (Athapascan)
(-)		5	Dinka language
(-)		2	Dogri language (macro)
fa		2	Persian language
ff		9	Fulah language
(-)		5	Gbaya language (Central African Republic)
(-)		2	Gondi language
(-)		5	Grebo language
gn		5	Guaraní language
(-)		2	Haida language
sh		3	Serbo-Croatian language
(-)		21	Hmong language
iu		2	Inuktitut language
ik		2	Inupiaq language
(-)		5	Judeo-Arabic languages
kr		3	Kanuri language
(-)		2	Konkani language (generic)
kv		2	Komi language
kg		3	Kongo language
(-)		2	Kpelle language
ku		3	Kurdish language
(-)		8	Lahnda language
(-)		7	Mandingo language
mg		10	Malagasy language
mn		2	Mongolian language
ms		13	Malay language (generic)
(-)		6	Marwari language
no		2	Norwegian language
oc		5	Occitan language (post 1500); Provençal
oj		7	Ojibwa language
om		4	Oromo language
ps		3	Pushto language
qu		44	Quechua language
(-)		6	Rajasthani language
(-)		7	Romany language
sq		4	Albanian language
sc		4	Sardinian language
sw		2	Swahili language (generic)
(-)		2	Syriac language
(-)		4	Tamashek language
uz		2	Uzbek language
yi		2	Yiddish language
(-)		58	Zapotec language
za		2	Zhuang language
zh		13	Chinese language

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