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n this paper, we attempt to explain the emergence of the linguistic diversitythat exists across the consonant inventories of some of the major languagefamilies of the world through a complex network based growth model. There isonly a single parameter for this model that is meant to introduce a smallamount of randomness in the otherwise preferential attachment based growthprocess. The experiments with this model parameter indicates that the choice ofconsonants among the languages within a family are far more preferential thanit is across the families. The implications of this result are twofold -- (a)there is an innate preference of the speakers towards acquiring certainlinguistic structures over others and (b) shared ancestry propels the strongerpreferential connection between the languages within a family than across them.Furthermore, our observations indicate that this parameter might bear acorrelation with the period of existence of the language families underinvestigation.

Language Diversity across the Consonant Inventories: A Study in the Framework of Complex Networks