Capturing the diversity of multilingual societies. (arXiv:2105.02570v4 [physics.soc-ph] UPDATED)

Cultural diversity encoded within languages of the world is at risk, as many
languages have become endangered in the last decades in a context of growing
globalization. To preserve this diversity, it is first necessary to understand
what drives language extinction, and which mechanisms might enable coexistence.
Here, we study language shift mechanisms using theoretical and data-driven
perspectives. A large-scale empirical analysis of multilingual societies using
Twitter and census data yields a wide diversity of spatial patterns of language
coexistence. …

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