Cardinal vowels

Cardinal vowel - standardised set of speech sounds. Article “Cardinal vowels” in English Wikipedia has 36.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 9 references and 6 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Cardinal vowels”, its content was written by 55 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 131 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 38 times in English Wikipedia and cited 158 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #7861 in February 2002
• Global: #8668 in February 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #185339 in November 2021
• Global: #286535 in November 2021

There are 11 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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Polish (pl) Samogłoski kardynalne		62.7076
2	English (en) Cardinal vowels		36.0877
3	Chinese (zh) 定位元音		27.2625
4	Persian (fa) واکه‌های اصلی		21.9896
5	German (de) Hauptvokal		15.4269
6	Czech (cs) Kardinální vokály		9.8035
7	Korean (ko) 기본 모음		9.6104
8	Japanese (ja) 基本母音		9.4727
9	Arabic (ar) الأصوات المتحركة الرئيسية		4.6932
10	Swedish (sv) Kardinalvokal		3.1613

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Cardinal vowels		698 045
2	Japanese (ja) 基本母音		67 859
3	German (de) Hauptvokal		28 336
4	Chinese (zh) 定位元音		24 930
5	Korean (ko) 기본 모음		19 714
6	Polish (pl) Samogłoski kardynalne		19 599
7	French (fr) Voyelle cardinale		13 016
8	Swedish (sv) Kardinalvokal		12 901
9	Arabic (ar) الأصوات المتحركة الرئيسية		4 496
10	Czech (cs) Kardinální vokály		2 671

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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 "Cardinal vowels" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Cardinal vowels		1 950
2	Japanese (ja) 基本母音		225
3	Chinese (zh) 定位元音		105
4	Polish (pl) Samogłoski kardynalne		84
5	Korean (ko) 기본 모음		55
6	German (de) Hauptvokal		51
7	French (fr) Voyelle cardinale		28
8	Arabic (ar) الأصوات المتحركة الرئيسية		23
9	Czech (cs) Kardinální vokály		13
10	Swedish (sv) Kardinalvokal		13

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Cardinal vowels		55
2	German (de) Hauptvokal		18
3	Polish (pl) Samogłoski kardynalne		17
4	French (fr) Voyelle cardinale		9
5	Japanese (ja) 基本母音		8
6	Chinese (zh) 定位元音		7
7	Korean (ko) 기본 모음		6
8	Arabic (ar) الأصوات المتحركة الرئيسية		4
9	Czech (cs) Kardinální vokály		3
10	Swedish (sv) Kardinalvokal		3

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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 "Cardinal vowels" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) الأصوات المتحركة الرئيسية		0
2	Czech (cs) Kardinální vokály		0
3	German (de) Hauptvokal		0
4	English (en) Cardinal vowels		0
5	Persian (fa) واکه‌های اصلی		0
6	French (fr) Voyelle cardinale		0
7	Japanese (ja) 基本母音		0
8	Korean (ko) 기본 모음		0
9	Polish (pl) Samogłoski kardynalne		0
10	Swedish (sv) Kardinalvokal		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 "Cardinal vowels" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Polish (pl) Samogłoski kardynalne		50
2	English (en) Cardinal vowels		38
3	Japanese (ja) 基本母音		36
4	Chinese (zh) 定位元音		18
5	Korean (ko) 기본 모음		5
6	German (de) Hauptvokal		4
7	Persian (fa) واکه‌های اصلی		3
8	French (fr) Voyelle cardinale		3
9	Swedish (sv) Kardinalvokal		1
10	Arabic (ar) الأصوات المتحركة الرئيسية		0

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic الأصوات المتحركة الرئيسية
cs	Czech Kardinální vokály
de	German Hauptvokal
en	English Cardinal vowels
fa	Persian واکه‌های اصلی
fr	French Voyelle cardinale
ja	Japanese 基本母音
ko	Korean 기본 모음
pl	Polish Samogłoski kardynalne
sv	Swedish Kardinalvokal
zh	Chinese 定位元音

Best Rank

English: #185339 11.2021

Global: #286535 11.2021

Best Rank

English: #7861 02.2002

Global: #8668 02.2002

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