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Abstract

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.

@article{mira05languageDeathDynamics,
  author={J. Mira and A. Paredes},
  title={Interlinguistic similarity and language death dynamics},
  journal={Europhysics Letters},
  year={2005},
  volume={69},
  number={6},
  pages={1031-1034},
  doi={10.1209/epl/i2004-10438-4},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/mira05languageDeathDynamics.html}
}

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