A new model for competition between many languages


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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS C, cilt.18, sa.7, ss.1203-1208, 2007 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus) identifier identifier

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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.