List of languages by total number of speakers

Quality:

List of languages by total number of speakers - Wikimedia list article. Article "List of languages by total number of speakers" in English Wikipedia has 35.6 points for quality (as of November 1, 2023). The article contains 49 references and 5 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

This article has the best quality in Malay Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In October 2023 the article "List of languages by total number of speakers" was edited by 8 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 12 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "List of languages by total number of speakers", its content was written by 576 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 995 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 145 times in English Wikipedia and cited 819 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1514 in August 2015
• Global: #5615 in August 2015

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #757 in February 2018
• Global: #2007 in February 2018

There are 14 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from November 1, 2023 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

下表顯示了最高品質的文章的語言版本。

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Malay (ms) Senarai bahasa mengikut jumlah bilangan penutur		50.825
2	Hindi (hi) भाषाभाषियों की कुल संख्या के अनुसार भाषाओं की सूची		44.5627
3	Chinese (zh) 按人口排列的语言列表		42.2504
4	Persian (fa) فهرست زبان‌ها بر پایه مجموع تعداد سخنوران		38.452
5	English (en) List of languages by total number of speakers		35.5956
6	French (fr) Liste de langues par nombre total de locuteurs		32.4921
7	Urdu (ur) فہرست زبانیں بلحاظ تعداد مقررین		31.9107
8	Turkish (tr) Toplam konuşur sayısına göre dillerin listesi		24.6589
9	Armenian (hy) Լեզուների ցանկ ըստ լեզվով խոսողների ընդհանուր թվի		22.6935
10	German (de) Liste der meistgesprochenen Sprachen		22.3985

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) List of languages by total number of speakers		7 735 640
2	French (fr) Liste de langues par nombre total de locuteurs		2 432 479
3	German (de) Liste der meistgesprochenen Sprachen		1 317 688
4	Portuguese (pt) Lista de línguas por número total de falantes		931 437
5	Chinese (zh) 按人口排列的语言列表		650 684
6	Arabic (ar) قائمة اللغات حسب العدد الكلي للمتحدثين		347 467
7	Persian (fa) فهرست زبان‌ها بر پایه مجموع تعداد سخنوران		175 959
8	Finnish (fi) Luettelo kielistä puhujamäärän perusteella		134 716
9	Armenian (hy) Լեզուների ցանկ ըստ լեզվով խոսողների ընդհանուր թվի		15 012
10	Turkish (tr) Toplam konuşur sayısına göre dillerin listesi		5 069

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) List of languages by total number of speakers		75 985
2	German (de) Liste der meistgesprochenen Sprachen		19 246
3	Arabic (ar) قائمة اللغات حسب العدد الكلي للمتحدثين		8 949
4	French (fr) Liste de langues par nombre total de locuteurs		7 232
5	Chinese (zh) 按人口排列的语言列表		4 618
6	Portuguese (pt) Lista de línguas por número total de falantes		3 512
7	Persian (fa) فهرست زبان‌ها بر پایه مجموع تعداد سخنوران		3 049
8	Turkish (tr) Toplam konuşur sayısına göre dillerin listesi		1 354
9	Armenian (hy) Լեզուների ցանկ ըստ լեզվով խոսողների ընդհանուր թվի		269
10	Finnish (fi) Luettelo kielistä puhujamäärän perusteella		152

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) List of languages by total number of speakers		576
2	French (fr) Liste de langues par nombre total de locuteurs		97
3	Chinese (zh) 按人口排列的语言列表		83
4	German (de) Liste der meistgesprochenen Sprachen		61
5	Finnish (fi) Luettelo kielistä puhujamäärän perusteella		58
6	Portuguese (pt) Lista de línguas por número total de falantes		39
7	Persian (fa) فهرست زبان‌ها بر پایه مجموع تعداد سخنوران		33
8	Arabic (ar) قائمة اللغات حسب العدد الكلي للمتحدثين		24
9	Armenian (hy) Լեզուների ցանկ ըստ լեզվով խոսողների ընդհանուր թվի		13
10	Hindi (hi) भाषाभाषियों की कुल संख्या के अनुसार भाषाओं की सूची		4

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) List of languages by total number of speakers		8
2	Persian (fa) فهرست زبان‌ها بر پایه مجموع تعداد سخنوران		2
3	French (fr) Liste de langues par nombre total de locuteurs		1
4	Portuguese (pt) Lista de línguas por número total de falantes		1
5	Arabic (ar) قائمة اللغات حسب العدد الكلي للمتحدثين		0
6	German (de) Liste der meistgesprochenen Sprachen		0
7	Finnish (fi) Luettelo kielistä puhujamäärän perusteella		0
8	Hindi (hi) भाषाभाषियों की कुल संख्या के अनुसार भाषाओं की सूची		0
9	Armenian (hy) Լեզուների ցանկ ըստ լեզվով խոսողների ընդհանուր թվի		0
10	Malay (ms) Senarai bahasa mengikut jumlah bilangan penutur		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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