Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 69, Number 6, March 2005
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Page(s) | 1031 - 1034 | |
Section | Interdisciplinary physics and related areas of science and technology | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2004-10438-4 | |
Published online | 02 February 2005 |
Interlinguistic similarity and language death dynamics
1
Departamento de Física Aplicada, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela E-15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2
Departamento de Física de Partículas, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela E-15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Corresponding authors: fajmirap@usc.es angel@fpaxp1.usc.es
Received:
9
September
2004
Accepted:
18
January
2005
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 (2003) 900). 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.
PACS: 89.65.-s – Social and economic systems
© EDP Sciences, 2005
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