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00925njm 22002777a 4500 dc Isern Sardó, Neus author Fort, Joaquim author 2014 Social Simulation Conference (2014 : Barcelona, Spain). Proceedings of the Social Simulation Conference held at Barcelona, Catalunya (Spain), September 1­5, 2014: 10th Artificial Economics Conference AE10th Conference of the European Social Simulation association ESSA 1st Simulating the Past to Understand Human History SPUHHH Cultural shift is present in many aspects of human history. Here we present a model developed to study the particular case of language shift when a minority language is in competition with another language, which is perceived by the population as being socially and economically more advantageous (Isern and Fort, J. R. Soc. Interface 2014). We show that this model can describe satisfactorily the decline on the fraction of Welsh speakers over the last century. We also apply our language shift model as an interaction term into a reaction-diffusion equation and use it to predict the spread of retreat of the area of prevalence of the Welsh language. We find that the predictions are consistent with observational data http://hdl.handle.net/10256/15421 Minories lingüístiques -- Models matemàtics Linguistic minorities -- Mathematical models Equacions de reacció-difusió Reaction-diffusion equations Modelling cultural shift: application to language decline and extinction