Honorific speech in Japanese

Honorific speech in Japanese - grammatical and syntactical feature of Japanese. Article “Honorific speech in Japanese” in English Wikipedia has 40.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 35 references and 31 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 13.5 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Honorific speech in Japanese”, its content was written by 194 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 426 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 324 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1036 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1396 in November 2004
• Global: #8568 in November 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #75395 in November 2008
• Global: #90439 in November 2008

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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Basque (eu) Japonieraren begirunezko trataera		47.5427
2	Japanese (ja) 日本語における敬語		45.3264
3	English (en) Honorific speech in Japanese		40.4852
4	Indonesian (id) Tuturan honorifik dalam bahasa Jepang		33.9387
5	Spanish (es) Lenguaje honorífico japonés		33.4418
6	Russian (ru) Кэйго		27.154
7	Estonian (et) Jaapanlaste viisakuskõne		25.516
8	German (de) Japanische Höflichkeitssprache		23.1426
9	Chinese (zh) 日語敬語		21.7176
10	Italian (it) Linguaggio onorifico giapponese		19.1904

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Honorific speech in Japanese" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Honorific speech in Japanese		1 763 517
2	Chinese (zh) 日語敬語		416 536
3	German (de) Japanische Höflichkeitssprache		221 650
4	Russian (ru) Кэйго		185 032
5	Spanish (es) Lenguaje honorífico japonés		130 075
6	French (fr) Keigo		122 720
7	Polish (pl) Keigo		74 633
8	Italian (it) Linguaggio onorifico giapponese		57 789
9	Indonesian (id) Tuturan honorifik dalam bahasa Jepang		35 959
10	Japanese (ja) 日本語における敬語		30 950

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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 "Honorific speech in Japanese" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Honorific speech in Japanese		8 686
2	Chinese (zh) 日語敬語		1 255
3	Japanese (ja) 日本語における敬語		796
4	Russian (ru) Кэйго		688
5	German (de) Japanische Höflichkeitssprache		458
6	French (fr) Keigo		323
7	Spanish (es) Lenguaje honorífico japonés		200
8	Polish (pl) Keigo		190
9	Italian (it) Linguaggio onorifico giapponese		161
10	Indonesian (id) Tuturan honorifik dalam bahasa Jepang		93

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Honorific speech in Japanese		194
2	German (de) Japanische Höflichkeitssprache		45
3	Chinese (zh) 日語敬語		38
4	French (fr) Keigo		31
5	Russian (ru) Кэйго		26
6	Spanish (es) Lenguaje honorífico japonés		22
7	Italian (it) Linguaggio onorifico giapponese		19
8	Polish (pl) Keigo		18
9	Estonian (et) Jaapanlaste viisakuskõne		11
10	Japanese (ja) 日本語における敬語		8

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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 "Honorific speech in Japanese" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Japanische Höflichkeitssprache		0
2	English (en) Honorific speech in Japanese		0
3	Spanish (es) Lenguaje honorífico japonés		0
4	Estonian (et) Jaapanlaste viisakuskõne		0
5	Basque (eu) Japonieraren begirunezko trataera		0
6	Persian (fa) گفتار محترمانه در زبان ژاپنی		0
7	French (fr) Keigo		0
8	Indonesian (id) Tuturan honorifik dalam bahasa Jepang		0
9	Italian (it) Linguaggio onorifico giapponese		0
10	Japanese (ja) 日本語における敬語		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 "Honorific speech in Japanese" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Honorific speech in Japanese		324
2	Chinese (zh) 日語敬語		176
3	Russian (ru) Кэйго		145
4	Japanese (ja) 日本語における敬語		144
5	French (fr) Keigo		62
6	Ukrainian (uk) Кейґо		62
7	Indonesian (id) Tuturan honorifik dalam bahasa Jepang		42
8	German (de) Japanische Höflichkeitssprache		24
9	Spanish (es) Lenguaje honorífico japonés		24
10	Italian (it) Linguaggio onorifico giapponese		18

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#	Language	Value
de	German Japanische Höflichkeitssprache
en	English Honorific speech in Japanese
es	Spanish Lenguaje honorífico japonés
et	Estonian Jaapanlaste viisakuskõne
eu	Basque Japonieraren begirunezko trataera
fa	Persian گفتار محترمانه در زبان ژاپنی
fr	French Keigo
id	Indonesian Tuturan honorifik dalam bahasa Jepang
it	Italian Linguaggio onorifico giapponese
ja	Japanese 日本語における敬語
ms	Malay Ucapan penghormatan dalam bahasa Jepun
pl	Polish Keigo
ru	Russian Кэйго
uk	Ukrainian Кейґо
zh	Chinese 日語敬語

Best Rank

English: #75395 11.2008

Global: #90439 11.2008

Best Rank

English: #1396 11.2004

Global: #8568 11.2004

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