This paper describes a preliminary study on the comparative linguistic
ecology of online spaces (i.e., social media language data) and real-world
spaces in Aotearoa New Zealand (i.e., subnational administrative areas). We
compare measures of linguistic diversity between these different spaces and
discuss how social media users align with real-world populations. The results
from the current study suggests that there is potential to use online social
media language data to observe spatial and temporal changes in linguistic
diversity at subnational geographic areas; however, further work is required to
understand how well social media represents real-world behaviour.

该研究描述了在线空间（即社交媒体语言数据）和真实世界空间（即新西兰的分行政区域）的比较语言生态学初步研究。我们比较了这些不同空间的语言多样性指标，并讨论社交媒体用户如何与真实世界人口保持一致。当前研究的结果表明，有潜力利用在线社交媒体语言数据观察分行政地理区域的语言多样性的时空变化，但需要进一步研究来了解社交媒体如何代表真实世界行为。