2007/04/05 by C. Schulze, D. Stauffer, Schulze, C. +3
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph) #physics.soc-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0704.0691
24 pages review, draft for Comm.Comput.Phys., plus appendix on bilinguality
arxiv created 2007/04/05 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
Simulations of physicists for the competition between adult languages since 2003 are reviewed. How many languages are spoken by how many people? How many languages are contained in various language families? How do language similarities decay with geographical distance, and what effects do natural boundaries have? New simulations of bilinguality are given in an appendix.