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There is a negative correlation between the number of speakers of a language and its morphological richness
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Large-scale empirical studies demonstrate a negative correlation between the number of language speakers and morphological complexity, showing that larger speech communities tend to have simpler morphologies.

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journals.plos.org: Language Structure Is Partly Determined by Social Structure | PLOS One
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Finds that languages spoken by larger groups tend to have simpler morphological complexity.
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royalsocietypublishing.org: Language structure is influenced by the number of speakers but seemingly not by the proportion of non-native speakers
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Indicates language structure is influenced by the number of speakers.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov: Language structure is influenced by the number of speakers but ... - PMC
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Affirms a statistical relationship between the estimated number of language users and its linguistic structure.
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