Alternation (linguistics)

en

WikiRank.net
ver. 1.6.2

Alternation (linguistics)

Quality:

Alternation - linguistic pattern where a morpheme has multiple phonetic realizations. Article “Alternation (linguistics)” in English Wikipedia has 18.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 7 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Alternation (linguistics)”, its content was written by 39 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 204 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 129 times in English Wikipedia and cited 656 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #2793 in August 2002
  • Global: #4788 in August 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #380597 in October 2014
  • Global: #165457 in November 2010

There are 15 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 July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Korean (ko)
교체
31.5999
2Russian (ru)
Чередование
27.0256
3Chinese (zh)
语音交替
25.7852
4Arabic (ar)
قلب (لغة)
21.9667
5English (en)
Alternation (linguistics)
18.2838
6Basque (eu)
Txandakatze
14.073
7Ukrainian (uk)
Чергування звуків
13.4582
8Kazakh (kk)
Дыбыс алмасуы
11.9291
9Japanese (ja)
交替 (言語学)
5.3692
10Dutch (nl)
Alternantie (taalkunde)
4.44
More...

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

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Alternation (linguistics)" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1Polish (pl)
Alternacja (językoznawstwo)
306 670
2English (en)
Alternation (linguistics)
279 412
3Croatian (hr)
Glasovna promjena
246 524
4Russian (ru)
Чередование
136 041
5Ukrainian (uk)
Чергування звуків
66 017
6German (de)
Alternanz (Linguistik)
63 814
7Armenian (hy)
Հնչյունափոխություն
63 690
8Japanese (ja)
交替 (言語学)
24 113
9Kazakh (kk)
Дыбыс алмасуы
23 965
10Arabic (ar)
قلب (لغة)
20 254
More...

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

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Alternation (linguistics)" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Alternation (linguistics)
575
2Armenian (hy)
Հնչյունափոխություն
420
3Russian (ru)
Чередование
295
4Croatian (hr)
Glasovna promjena
225
5Polish (pl)
Alternacja (językoznawstwo)
172
6Ukrainian (uk)
Чергування звуків
87
7Japanese (ja)
交替 (言語学)
83
8Korean (ko)
교체
80
9Chinese (zh)
语音交替
67
10German (de)
Alternanz (Linguistik)
60
More...

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

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Alternation (linguistics)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Alternation (linguistics)
39
2German (de)
Alternanz (Linguistik)
31
3Russian (ru)
Чередование
21
4Polish (pl)
Alternacja (językoznawstwo)
20
5Croatian (hr)
Glasovna promjena
18
6Dutch (nl)
Alternantie (taalkunde)
15
7Ukrainian (uk)
Чергування звуків
13
8Arabic (ar)
قلب (لغة)
9
9Korean (ko)
교체
9
10Armenian (hy)
Հնչյունափոխություն
8
More...

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

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Alternation (linguistics)" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Arabic (ar)
قلب (لغة)
0
2German (de)
Alternanz (Linguistik)
0
3English (en)
Alternation (linguistics)
0
4Basque (eu)
Txandakatze
0
5Persian (fa)
دگرگونی (زبان‌شناسی)
0
6Croatian (hr)
Glasovna promjena
0
7Armenian (hy)
Հնչյունափոխություն
0
8Japanese (ja)
交替 (言語学)
0
9Kazakh (kk)
Дыбыс алмасуы
0
10Korean (ko)
교체
0
More...

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

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Alternation (linguistics)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1Russian (ru)
Чередование
223
2English (en)
Alternation (linguistics)
129
3Chinese (zh)
语音交替
52
4Armenian (hy)
Հնչյունափոխություն
51
5Polish (pl)
Alternacja (językoznawstwo)
49
6Croatian (hr)
Glasovna promjena
38
7Ukrainian (uk)
Чергування звуків
30
8German (de)
Alternanz (Linguistik)
20
9Japanese (ja)
交替 (言語学)
16
10Dutch (nl)
Alternantie (taalkunde)
16
More...

Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
English:
Global:
Popularity in June 2025:
English:
Global:
Popularity in all years:
English:
Global:
Authors in June 2025:
English:
Global:
Registered authors in all years:
English:
Global:
Citations:
English:
Global:

Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
قلب (لغة)
deGerman
Alternanz (Linguistik)
enEnglish
Alternation (linguistics)
euBasque
Txandakatze
faPersian
دگرگونی (زبان‌شناسی)
hrCroatian
Glasovna promjena
hyArmenian
Հնչյունափոխություն
jaJapanese
交替 (言語学)
kkKazakh
Дыбыс алмасуы
koKorean
교체
nlDutch
Alternantie (taalkunde)
plPolish
Alternacja (językoznawstwo)
ruRussian
Чередование
ukUkrainian
Чергування звуків
zhChinese
语音交替

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#380597
10.2014
Global:
#165457
11.2010

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#2793
08.2002
Global:
#4788
08.2002

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Alternation from Wikipedia articles about Apophony, Sound change, Phonological rule, Sandhi and Semitic. Whereas reading the article about Alternation people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Palatalization, Assibilation, Iotation, Dissapearing A and Consonant voicing and devoicing.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

ko: 교체

News from 28 February 2026

On 28 February 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: Ali Khamenei, Iran, Ruhollah Khomeini, Jeffrey Epstein, Supreme Leader of Iran, Mohammad Reza I of Iran, 2026 Israeli–United States strikes on Iran, Neil Sedaka, Masoud Pezeshkian, Resident Evil Requiem.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: Ali Khamenei, 2026 Israeli–United States strikes on Iran, Neil Sedaka, Iran, Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran–Israel conflict, Supreme Leader of Iran, Scream 7, Elimination Chamber (2026), World War III.

About WikiRank

The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information