Article | 13-December-2019
The study presents a stochastic epidemic model applied to the model of indigenous language extinction. The Susceptible-Infectious-Removed (SIR) categorization of an endemic disease has been reformulated to capture the dynamics of indigenous language decline, based on the assumption of nonhomogeneous mixing. The time in which an indigenous language is expected to be extinct was derived using a modified SIR model with the population segmented into several sub-communities of small sizes
N. A. Ikoba,
E. T. Jolayemi
Statistics in Transition New Series, Volume 20 , ISSUE 4, 71–87