Modeling language evolution: Aromanian, an endangered language in Greece

Evangelos Bakalis and Alexandra Galani

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2012, vol. 391, issue 20, 4963-4969

Abstract: Time evolution of the relative density of speakers of an endangered language, Aromanian, which is spoken by a bilingual community in North-Western Greece, is approached theoretically by means of a two-state model and a three-state model. The same prestige and volatility parameters are used in these two models. Furthermore, a culture parameter and a second exponent are introduced in the three-state model. The parameters of each model are fitted to the current status of Aromanian, on the basis of field evidence collected by us, and the first findings about the risk of the language’s extinction are presented.

Keywords: Language competition; Dynamical systems; Social–economic systems; Language endangerment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2012.05.033

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