Understanding and predicting the evolution of competing languages is a topic of high interest in a world with more than 6000 languages competing in a highly connected environment. We consider a reasonable mathematical model describing a situation of competition between two languages and analyse the effect of the speakers’ connectivity (i.e. social networks). Surprisingly, instead of homogenizin...

The Internet has been hailed as the ideal medium to facilitate expressions of cultural diversity and individualism in cyberspace. But the dominance of a few Web giants also exerts a homogenizing influence over users and audience in this space. To assess the relative influence of these two opposing forces, we examines the top ranking websites of several ethnolinguistic groups to determine whethe...

Understanding and predicting the evolution of competing languages is a topic of high interest in a world with more than 6000 languages competing in a highly connected environment. We consider a reasonable mathematical model describing a situation of competition between two languages and analyse the effect of the speakers' connectivity (i.e. social networks). Surprisingly, instead of homogenizin...