History of the Spanish language

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History of the Spanish language

Quality:

Article “History of the Spanish language” in English Wikipedia has 66.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 79 references and 29 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “History of the Spanish language”, its content was written by 273 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 641 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 170 times in English Wikipedia and cited 458 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #9915 in May 2021
  • Global: #15534 in March 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #100712 in September 2014
  • Global: #24965 in February 2016

There are 10 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
1Chinese (zh)
西班牙语历史
67.7571
2English (en)
History of the Spanish language
66.8535
3French (fr)
Histoire de la langue espagnole
63.6474
4Hungarian (hu)
A spanyol nyelv története
54.6254
5Russian (ru)
История испанского языка
49.0868
6Spanish (es)
Historia del idioma español
45.0281
7Italian (it)
Storia della lingua spagnola
40.3075
8Catalan (ca)
Història de la llengua castellana
27.514
9Arabic (ar)
تاريخ اللغة الإسبانية
9.8709
10Romanian (ro)
Istoria limbii spaniole
4.9087
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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 "History of the Spanish language" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1Spanish (es)
Historia del idioma español
4 760 000
2English (en)
History of the Spanish language
1 238 966
3French (fr)
Histoire de la langue espagnole
205 900
4Italian (it)
Storia della lingua spagnola
97 913
5Russian (ru)
История испанского языка
59 244
6Hungarian (hu)
A spanyol nyelv története
28 783
7Catalan (ca)
Història de la llengua castellana
15 109
8Romanian (ro)
Istoria limbii spaniole
13 567
9Arabic (ar)
تاريخ اللغة الإسبانية
11 410
10Chinese (zh)
西班牙语历史
5 389
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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 "History of the Spanish language" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
History of the Spanish language
4 967
2Spanish (es)
Historia del idioma español
4 522
3French (fr)
Histoire de la langue espagnole
333
4Russian (ru)
История испанского языка
272
5Chinese (zh)
西班牙语历史
154
6Italian (it)
Storia della lingua spagnola
142
7Hungarian (hu)
A spanyol nyelv története
126
8Catalan (ca)
Història de la llengua castellana
99
9Arabic (ar)
تاريخ اللغة الإسبانية
29
10Romanian (ro)
Istoria limbii spaniole
17
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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 "History of the Spanish language" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
History of the Spanish language
273
2Spanish (es)
Historia del idioma español
187
3French (fr)
Histoire de la langue espagnole
60
4Hungarian (hu)
A spanyol nyelv története
50
5Italian (it)
Storia della lingua spagnola
38
6Catalan (ca)
Història de la llengua castellana
11
7Russian (ru)
История испанского языка
10
8Arabic (ar)
تاريخ اللغة الإسبانية
6
9Romanian (ro)
Istoria limbii spaniole
4
10Chinese (zh)
西班牙语历史
2
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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 "History of the Spanish language" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1French (fr)
Histoire de la langue espagnole
1
2Arabic (ar)
تاريخ اللغة الإسبانية
0
3Catalan (ca)
Història de la llengua castellana
0
4English (en)
History of the Spanish language
0
5Spanish (es)
Historia del idioma español
0
6Hungarian (hu)
A spanyol nyelv története
0
7Italian (it)
Storia della lingua spagnola
0
8Romanian (ro)
Istoria limbii spaniole
0
9Russian (ru)
История испанского языка
0
10Chinese (zh)
西班牙语历史
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 "History of the Spanish language" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
History of the Spanish language
170
2Hungarian (hu)
A spanyol nyelv története
53
3Russian (ru)
История испанского языка
53
4French (fr)
Histoire de la langue espagnole
52
5Spanish (es)
Historia del idioma español
34
6Catalan (ca)
Història de la llengua castellana
33
7Italian (it)
Storia della lingua spagnola
26
8Arabic (ar)
تاريخ اللغة الإسبانية
17
9Chinese (zh)
西班牙语历史
17
10Romanian (ro)
Istoria limbii spaniole
3
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Citations:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
تاريخ اللغة الإسبانية
caCatalan
Història de la llengua castellana
enEnglish
History of the Spanish language
esSpanish
Historia del idioma español
frFrench
Histoire de la langue espagnole
huHungarian
A spanyol nyelv története
itItalian
Storia della lingua spagnola
roRomanian
Istoria limbii spaniole
ruRussian
История испанского языка
zhChinese
西班牙语历史

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#100712
09.2014
Global:
#24965
02.2016

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#9915
05.2021
Global:
#15534
03.2017

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on History of the Spanish language from Wikipedia articles about Spanish, Old Spanish, Spanish phonology, Castilian desonorization and Vulgar Latin. Whereas reading the article about History of the Spanish language people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Old Spanish, Early Modern Spanish, Spanish, Vulgar Latin and Romance languages.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

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