Urbanity and the dynamics of language shift in Galicia

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Sociolinguistic phenomena often involve interactions across different scales and result in social and linguistic changes that can be tracked over time. Here, we focus on the dynamics of language shift in Galicia, a bilingual community in northwest Spain. Using historical data on Galician and Spanish speakers, we show that the rate at which shift dynamics unfold correlates inversely with the internal complexity of a region (approximated by the proportion of urban area). Less complex areas converge faster to steady states, while more complex ones sustain transitory dynamics longer. We further explore the contextual relevance of each region within the network of regions that constitute Galicia. The network is observed to sustain or reverse the dynamic rates. This model can introduce a competition between the internal complexity of a region and its contextual relevance in the network. Harnessing these sociodynamic features may prove useful in policy making to limit conflicts.

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Mussa Juane, M., Seoane, L. F., Muñuzuri, A. P., & Mira, J. (2019). Urbanity and the dynamics of language shift in Galicia. Nature Communications, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09688-8

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