Vidal-Franco, IgnacioGuiu Souto, JacoboPérez Muñuzuri, Alberto2018-10-222018-10-222017Vidal-Franco, I., Guiu-Souto, J., & Muñuzuri, A. P. (2017). Social media enhances languages differentiation: a mathematical description. Royal Society Open Science, 4(5), 170094. http://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.170094http://hdl.handle.net/10347/17601Understanding 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 homogenizing the system, a high degree of connectivity helps to introduce differentiation for the appropriate parametersengCopyright © 2017 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. Atribución 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Language competitionNetworksDifferentiation induced by globalizationNon-localized Turing structuresjournal article10.1098/rsos.1700942054-5703open access