languages on the Earth. …

Here we describe how some important scaling laws observed in the distribution of languages on Earth can emerge from a …

languages with different bit-strings are counted as different, the resulting size distribution of languages agrees with the …

The differential equation of Abrams and Strogatz for the competition between two languages is compared with agent … 109 agents. In the case of socially equivalent languages, agent-based models and a mean-field approximation give grossly …

and the population dynamics of a system made of two interacting species which initially speak two different languages. The … final state where both languages coexist. However, in cases where one species greatly outnumbers the other in population and … language. Thus, our results offer an explanation for the existence and origin of synonyms in spoken languages. …

We use cellular automata simulation methods to study the competition between two languages (language A and B). We … assume each of the two languages consists of F independent features and define an individual as two F-length “identity level … methods. First, we consider the situation that the competition occurs between two languages with only one feature. We find the …

field evidence collected by us, and the first findings about the risk of the language’s extinction are presented. …

death, Nature 424 (2003) 900], the extinction of one of the competing languages is predicted, although in some case the … coexistence occurs. The preservation of both languages was explained by Patriarca and Leppanen [Modeling language competition …, their results cannot explain the survivance of both languages in only one zone of competition. In this work we discuss their …

Competition between languages or cultural traits diffusing in the same geographical area is studied combining the model … growth is discussed. It is shown through numerical simulations that the final configuration of the languages can be strongly …