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 …

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 …

We study the role played by bilinguals in the competition between two languages and in the formation of a bilingual … existence of a stable bilingual community though no particular conditions are assumed for the two competing languages: the … two languages, in the sense that they are regarded by monolinguals also as speakers of the other language. Besides that …

, how the fractions of speakers of several competing languages evolve in time. In this paper, we review recent advances in … sociolinguistics. In particular, the question addressed is whether bilingualism facilitates the coexistence of languages. Second, we …

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 …