2 papers
math.DS2023
Bilingualism beyond a transitional state and its societal stability
Chami Kariyapperuma, Kushani De Silva
For the longest time, languages have been competing for their speakers to survive, although this problem has only recently gained rigorous attention from the scholarly community as…
physics.soc-ph2020
The "higher" status language does not always win: The fall of English in India and the rise of Hindi
Kushani De Silva, Rana D. Parshad, Aladeen Basheer +3
Classical language dynamics explains language shift as a process in which speakers adopt a higher status language in lieu of a lower status language. This is well documented with E…