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-rw-r--r--util/locale_database/enumdata.py5
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diff --git a/util/locale_database/enumdata.py b/util/locale_database/enumdata.py
index f20ac974ee..ab0f4a3eae 100644
--- a/util/locale_database/enumdata.py
+++ b/util/locale_database/enumdata.py
@@ -47,6 +47,11 @@
# are offset with a blank line, below. After doing that, regenerate
# locale data as usual; this will cause a binary-incompatible change.
+# Note on "macrolanguage" comments: see "ISO 639 macrolanguage" on
+# Wikipedia. A "macrolanguage" is (loosely-speaking) a group of
+# languages so closely related to one another that they could also be
+# regarded as divergent dialects of the macrolanguage.
+
language_list = {
0: ("AnyLanguage", " "),
1: ("C", " "),