Approximant

Approximant consonant - speech sound that involves articulators approaching each other but not narrowly enough to create turbulent airflow. Article "Approximant" in English Wikipedia has 51.8 points for quality (as of November 1, 2023). The article contains 44 references and 15 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

In October 2023 the article "Approximant" was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Approximant", its content was written by 124 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 564 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2812 times in English Wikipedia (9713^th place) and cited 11432 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #318 in January 2002
• Global: #382 in January 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #69435 in April 2010
• Global: #83643 in April 2010

There are 33 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	English (en) Approximant		51.8058
2	German (de) Approximant		35.7476
3	Greek (el) Προσεγγιστικά σύμφωνα		26.6967
4	Swedish (sv) Approximant		26.6052
5	Indonesian (id) Konsonan hampiran		24.0925
6	Arabic (ar) شبه صامت		21.9513
7	Vietnamese (vi) Âm tiếp cận		17.8853
8	Simple English (simple) Approximant consonant		16.2909
9	Esperanto (eo) Alproksimanto		15.5015
10	Portuguese (pt) Consoante aproximante		15.4149

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Approximant" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Approximant		1 313 189
2	German (de) Approximant		183 780
3	Italian (it) Consonante approssimante		156 596
4	Spanish (es) Consonante aproximante		155 246
5	French (fr) Consonne spirante		124 166
6	Russian (ru) Аппроксиманты		95 255
7	Japanese (ja) 接近音		79 261
8	Chinese (zh) 近音		76 425
9	Simple English (simple) Approximant consonant		68 174
10	Portuguese (pt) Consoante aproximante		45 594

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Approximant" in October 2023

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Approximant		6 450
2	Italian (it) Consonante approssimante		983
3	Spanish (es) Consonante aproximante		893
4	Chinese (zh) 近音		743
5	Russian (ru) Аппроксиманты		686
6	Simple English (simple) Approximant consonant		678
7	German (de) Approximant		591
8	French (fr) Consonne spirante		531
9	Japanese (ja) 接近音		402
10	Finnish (fi) Approksimantti		315

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

Language versions of the article "Approximant" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Approximant		124
2	German (de) Approximant		56
3	French (fr) Consonne spirante		45
4	Italian (it) Consonante approssimante		40
5	Russian (ru) Аппроксиманты		34
6	Hebrew (he) עיצורים מקורבים		26
7	Norwegian (no) Approksimanter		26
8	Finnish (fi) Approksimantti		23
9	Chinese (zh) 近音		20
10	Japanese (ja) 接近音		17

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

Language versions of the article "Approximant" with the highest AI in October 2023

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Approximant		2
2	Spanish (es) Consonante aproximante		2
3	Ukrainian (uk) Приголосні-апроксиманти		2
4	Croatian (hr) Aproksimant		1
5	Arabic (ar) شبه صامت		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Приблизителна съгласна		0
7	Catalan (ca) Consonant aproximant		0
8	Czech (cs) Aproximantní souhláska		0
9	Danish (da) Approksimant		0
10	German (de) Approximant		0

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

Language versions of the article "Approximant" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Approximant		2 812
2	Chinese (zh) 近音		812
3	Portuguese (pt) Consoante aproximante		735
4	Spanish (es) Consonante aproximante		580
5	Russian (ru) Аппроксиманты		533
6	Catalan (ca) Consonant aproximant		513
7	French (fr) Consonne spirante		471
8	Italian (it) Consonante approssimante		438
9	Indonesian (id) Konsonan hampiran		427
10	Japanese (ja) 接近音		400

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic شبه صامت
bg	Bulgarian Приблизителна съгласна
ca	Catalan Consonant aproximant
cs	Czech Aproximantní souhláska
da	Danish Approksimant
de	German Approximant
el	Greek Προσεγγιστικά σύμφωνα
en	English Approximant
eo	Esperanto Alproksimanto
es	Spanish Consonante aproximante
fa	Persian ناسوده
fi	Finnish Approksimantti
fr	French Consonne spirante
he	Hebrew עיצורים מקורבים
hr	Croatian Aproksimant
id	Indonesian Konsonan hampiran
it	Italian Consonante approssimante
ja	Japanese 接近音
ko	Korean 접근음
ms	Malay Konsonan malaran tak geser
nl	Dutch Approximant
no	Norwegian Approksimanter
pl	Polish Aproksymant
pt	Portuguese Consoante aproximante
ro	Romanian Consoană sonantă
ru	Russian Аппроксиманты
sh	Serbo-Croatian Aproksimant
simple	Simple English Approximant consonant
sv	Swedish Approximant
ta	Tamil உயிர்ப்போலி
uk	Ukrainian Приголосні-апроксиманти
vi	Vietnamese Âm tiếp cận
zh	Chinese 近音

Best Rank

English: #69435 04.2010

Global: #83643 04.2010

Best Rank

English: #318 01.2002

Global: #382 01.2002

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