ABSTRACT
The factors usually handled by demolinguistics are quantifiable and qualitative in nature and have to do with speakers (as populations), with their languages (as attributes), and with the circumstances that surround each within the different models of society around the globe. Speakers and their languages constitute the main point of reference, the variables that must be analyzed, explained, interpreted, and projected. Those factors, in many cases focused on the mother tongue, the habitual language of use, or the language spoken at home, contribute to a basic demolinguistics in which factors such as nationality, origin, and ethnic self-ascription must also be considered. The analysis of speech communities supposes studying the composition of the parts that comprise them. Demolinguistics handles a wide range of possibilities, notable among which are those relating to the official status of languages and their international use, the presence of languages in the educational systems, the economics of the speaker populations of each language, the cultural and scientific dimension of languages, and the presence of languages on the internet and in social communication media.
