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@article{citeulike:467292, abstract = {Thousands of the world's languages are vanishing at an alarming rate, with 90\% of them being expected to disappear with the current generation1. Here we develop a simple model of language competition that explains historical data on the decline of Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, Quechua (the most common surviving indigenous language in the Americas) and other endangered languages. A linguistic parameter that quantifies the threat of language extinction can be derived from the model and may be useful in the design and evaluation of language-preservation programmes.}, author = {Abrams, Daniel M. and Strogatz, Steven H.}, citeulike-article-id = {467292}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/424900a}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/abrams03languageDeath.html}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/424900a}, day = {21}, doi = {10.1038/424900a}, issn = {0028-0836}, journal = {Nature}, keywords = {language\_death, linguistics, nonlinearity}, month = {August}, number = {6951}, pages = {900}, posted-at = {2009-09-24 17:49:47}, priority = {0}, publisher = {Nature Publishing Group}, title = {Linguistics: Modelling the dynamics of language death}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/424900a}, volume = {424}, year = {2003} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:467292 L3 - citeulike-article-id:467292 N2 - Thousands of the world's languages are vanishing at an alarming rate, with 90% of them being expected to disappear with the current generation1. Here we develop a simple model of language competition that explains historical data on the decline of Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, Quechua (the most common surviving indigenous language in the Americas) and other endangered languages. A linguistic parameter that quantifies the threat of language extinction can be derived from the model and may be useful in the design and evaluation of language-preservation programmes. IS - 6951 JF - Nature SN - 0028-0836 EP - 900 TI - Linguistics: Modelling the dynamics of language death PB - Nature Publishing Group VL - 424 SP - 900 KW - language_death KW - linguistics KW - nonlinearity AU - Abrams, Daniel AU - Strogatz, Steven PY - 2003/08/21/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/424900a ER -