Language as Drift Medium: Pe Scoring of Natural Languages Predicts Lexical Change Rate Across 55 Language Systems

This paper applies the Void Framework's three-dimensional Pe scoring to natural language systems, demonstrating that lexical change rate across 55 language-register pairs correlates with Pe estimate (Spearman ρ ≥ 0.70). Canonical liturgical languages (Latin, Sanskrit, Classical Arabic) sit at the constraint pole (Pe ≈ 0, zero change rate), while creole and platform-mediated registers operate at Pe > 3 with rapid irreversible drift. The arrow of linguistic time is the Pe gradient direction (Paper 77): vocabulary drift is entropy production, canonical text is tidal lock, liturgical recitation is orbital recession. The prohibition-ritual pair (Paper 49) appears at language scale as canonical text plus liturgical use, confirming self-similarity across planetary, biological, social, and linguistic substrates.