Statistical physics has proven to be a fruitful framework to describe phenomena outside the
realm of traditional physics. Recent years have witnessed an attempt by physicists to study …

This book discusses the study and analysis of the physical aspects of social systems and
models, inspired by the analogy with familiar models of physical systems and possible …

As indicated early by Charles Darwin, languages behave and change very much like living
species. They display high diversity, differentiate in space and time, emerge and disappear …

Many of the world's languages face serious risk of extinction. Efforts to prevent this cultural
loss are severely constrained by a poor understanding of the geographical patterns and …

We consider an extension of the voter model in which a set of interacting elements (agents)
can be in either of two equivalent states (A or B) or in a third additional mixed (AB) state. The …

The book requires only rudimentary physics knowledge but ability to program computers
creatively and to keep the mind open to simple and not so simple models, based in …

We present a mathematical formulation of a theory of language change. The theory is
evolutionary in nature and has close analogies with theories of population genetics. The …

The differential equation of Abrams and Strogatz for the competition between two languages
is compared with agent-based Monte Carlo simulations for fully connected networks as well …

Simulations of physicists for the competition between adult languages since 2003 are
reviewed. How many languages are spoken by how many people? How many languages …

Modern linguistic typology is increasingly less concerned with what is possible in human
languages (universals) and increasingly more with the question “what's where why?”(Bickel …