Theoretical model for the evolution of t
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Viviane M. de Oliveira; M.A.F. Gomes; I.R. Tsang
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Article
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2006
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Here we describe how some important scaling laws observed in the distribution of languages on Earth can emerge from a simple computer simulation. The proposed language dynamics includes processes of selective geographic colonization, linguistic anomalous diffusion and mutation, and interaction among