A NEW MODEL FOR COMPETITION BETWEEN MANY LANGUAGES

Çağlar Tuncay ()
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Çağlar Tuncay: Department of Physics, Middle East Technical University, 06531 Ankara, Turkey

International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), 2007, vol. 18, issue 07, 1203-1208

Abstract: Time evolution of number of cities, population of cities, world population, and size distribution of present languages are studied in terms of a new model, where population of each city increases by a random rate and decreases by a random division. World population and size distribution of languages come out in good agreement with the available empirical data.

Keywords: Cities; languages; evolution; multiplicative noise; fragmentation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1142/S0129183107011236

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