Interlinguistic similarity and language death dynamics

Details Interlinguistic similarity and language death dynamics Interlinguistic similarity and language death dynamics

2005-01-18

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0501097v1

Physics

Physics and Society

To appear in Europhysics Letters. 1 figure

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We analyze the time evolution of a system of two coexisting languages (Castillian Spanish and Galician, both spoken in northwest Spain) in the framework of a model given by Abrams and Strogatz [Nature 424, 900 (2003)]. It is shown that, contrary to the model's initial prediction, a stable bilingual situation is possible if the languages in competition are similar enough. Similarity is described with a simple parameter, whose value can be estimated from fits of the data.

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