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First language

Quality:

First language - language a person was raised speaking from birth. Article “First language” in English Wikipedia has 31.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 16 references and 7 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.68 points.

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

Since the creation of article “First language”, its content was written by 407 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2135 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 4841 times in English Wikipedia (4978th place) and cited 65553 times in all languages (2500th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #4536 in December 2003
  • Global: #1382 in September 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #20273 in May 2010
  • Global: #9342 in February 2018

There are 54 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
1German (de)
Muttersprache
34.0579
2English (en)
First language
31.9035
3Russian (ru)
Родной язык
30.1799
4Latin (la)
Sermo patrius
29.2926
5Esperanto (eo)
Gepatra lingvo
29.2078
6Chinese (zh)
母語
28.4652
7Ukrainian (uk)
Рідна мова
27.7011
8Slovenian (sl)
Materni jezik
25.7572
9Belarusian (be)
Родная мова
25.5664
10Polish (pl)
Język ojczysty
25.1463
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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 "First language" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
First language
6 363 204
2Spanish (es)
Lengua materna
1 903 515
3German (de)
Muttersprache
881 720
4Hindi (hi)
मातृभाषा
617 958
5French (fr)
Langue maternelle
568 681
6Russian (ru)
Родной язык
464 430
7Japanese (ja)
母語
454 107
8Portuguese (pt)
Língua materna
407 468
9Italian (it)
Lingua materna
396 482
10Arabic (ar)
لغة أم
385 725
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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 "First language" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
First language
25 848
2German (de)
Muttersprache
5 181
3Arabic (ar)
لغة أم
2 656
4Spanish (es)
Lengua materna
2 340
5Russian (ru)
Родной язык
2 190
6French (fr)
Langue maternelle
1 866
7Tamil (ta)
தாய்மொழி
1 237
8Japanese (ja)
母語
1 183
9Italian (it)
Lingua materna
1 178
10Chinese (zh)
母語
1 145
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "First language" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
First language
407
2German (de)
Muttersprache
176
3Spanish (es)
Lengua materna
112
4French (fr)
Langue maternelle
98
5Persian (fa)
زبان مادری
78
6Italian (it)
Lingua materna
75
7Japanese (ja)
母語
68
8Dutch (nl)
Moedertaal
66
9Russian (ru)
Родной язык
65
10Norwegian (no)
Morsmål
54
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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 "First language" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Spanish (es)
Lengua materna
2
2Galician (gl)
Lingua materna
1
3Polish (pl)
Język ojczysty
1
4Thai (th)
ภาษาแม่
1
5Urdu (ur)
مادری زبان
1
6Arabic (ar)
لغة أم
0
7Azerbaijani (az)
Ana dili
0
8Belarusian (be)
Родная мова
0
9Bulgarian (bg)
Роден език
0
10Catalan (ca)
Llengua materna
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "First language" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1Arabic (ar)
لغة أم
43 467
2Urdu (ur)
مادری زبان
5 228
3English (en)
First language
4 841
4Chinese (zh)
母語
1 094
5French (fr)
Langue maternelle
1 083
6German (de)
Muttersprache
847
7Japanese (ja)
母語
810
8Finnish (fi)
Äidinkieli
496
9Indonesian (id)
Bahasa ibu
466
10Russian (ru)
Родной язык
456
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
لغة أم
azAzerbaijani
Ana dili
beBelarusian
Родная мова
bgBulgarian
Роден език
caCatalan
Llengua materna
csCzech
Mateřský jazyk
daDanish
Modersmål
deGerman
Muttersprache
elGreek
Μητρική γλώσσα
enEnglish
First language
eoEsperanto
Gepatra lingvo
esSpanish
Lengua materna
etEstonian
Emakeel
euBasque
Lehen hizkuntza
faPersian
زبان مادری
fiFinnish
Äidinkieli
frFrench
Langue maternelle
glGalician
Lingua materna
heHebrew
שפת אם
hiHindi
मातृभाषा
hrCroatian
Materinski jezik
huHungarian
Anyanyelv
hyArmenian
Մայրենի լեզու
idIndonesian
Bahasa ibu
itItalian
Lingua materna
jaJapanese
母語
kaGeorgian
დედაენა
kkKazakh
Ана тілі
koKorean
모어
laLatin
Sermo patrius
ltLithuanian
Gimtoji kalba
msMalay
Bahasa pertama
nlDutch
Moedertaal
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Morsmål
noNorwegian
Morsmål
plPolish
Język ojczysty
ptPortuguese
Língua materna
roRomanian
Limba maternă
ruRussian
Родной язык
shSerbo-Croatian
Maternji jezik
simpleSimple English
First language
skSlovak
Materinský jazyk
slSlovenian
Materni jezik
srSerbian
Maternji jezik
svSwedish
Modersmål
taTamil
தாய்மொழி
thThai
ภาษาแม่
trTurkish
Anadili
ukUkrainian
Рідна мова
urUrdu
مادری زبان
uzUzbek
Ona tili
viVietnamese
Ngôn ngữ đầu tiên
zhChinese
母語
zhminnanMin Nan
Bó-gí

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#20273
05.2010
Global:
#9342
02.2018

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#4536
12.2003
Global:
#1382
09.2009

Global popularity rank history

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 First language from Wikipedia articles about Indo-European, List of languages by total number of speakers, English, Russian and Korean. Whereas reading the article about First language people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Study, Language, Critical period hypothesis, List of languages by number of native speakers and International Mother Language Day.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

ja: 母語
zh: 母語
ko: 모어
zhminnan: Bó-gí

News from 26 September 2025

On 26 September 2025 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: Claudia Cardinale, One Battle After Another, ChatGPT, Alice in Borderland, Guinness, deaths in 2025, Benjamin Netanyahu, Assata Shakur, Charlie Kirk, Arthur Guinness.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: Google Chrome, Assata Shakur, James Comey, Voddie Baucham, They Call Him OG, Wounded Knee Massacre, Deaths in 2025, Ryder Cup, House of Guinness, Snake Eyes (1998 film).

About WikiRank

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