Italian language

Quality:

Italian - Romance language. Article “Italian language” in English Wikipedia has 72.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 166 references and 30 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 18.03 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 9379^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

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The 2773^rd most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 3906^th most popular in all topics.

The 1062^nd most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Global Wikipedia:

The 7133^rd most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Italian language” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 20 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Italian language”, its content was written by 1424 registered users of English Wikipedia (2773^rd place) and edited by 6318 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1062^nd place).

The article is cited 29419 times in English Wikipedia (444^th place) and cited 556880 times in all languages (170^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #54 in May 2001
• Global: #56 in May 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3223 in August 2010
• Global: #2033 in November 2018

There are 55 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, 2026 (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	Latin (la) Lingua Italiana		79.5425
2	Italian (it) Lingua italiana		72.7541
3	English (en) Italian language		72.1381
4	Persian (fa) زبان ایتالیایی		70.1853
5	Catalan (ca) Italià		62.0613
6	Turkish (tr) İtalyanca		59.3942
7	Spanish (es) Idioma italiano		56.6849
8	Finnish (fi) Italian kieli		53.437
9	German (de) Italienische Sprache		52.4051
10	Min Nan (zhminnan) Í-tāi-lī-gí		51.3451

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Italian language		15 093 310
2	Italian (it) Lingua italiana		7 603 333
3	Spanish (es) Idioma italiano		4 380 552
4	Russian (ru) Итальянский язык		2 830 333
5	German (de) Italienische Sprache		2 505 577
6	Japanese (ja) イタリア語		2 417 708
7	French (fr) Italien		1 597 843
8	Portuguese (pt) Língua italiana		1 310 101
9	Polish (pl) Język włoski		1 287 187
10	Chinese (zh) 意大利语		1 210 649

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Italian language		47 595
2	Italian (it) Lingua italiana		20 980
3	Russian (ru) Итальянский язык		8 654
4	German (de) Italienische Sprache		7 850
5	Spanish (es) Idioma italiano		5 939
6	Japanese (ja) イタリア語		5 904
7	French (fr) Italien		4 373
8	Persian (fa) زبان ایتالیایی		2 743
9	Chinese (zh) 意大利语		2 421
10	Portuguese (pt) Língua italiana		2 231

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Italian language		1 424
2	Italian (it) Lingua italiana		703
3	German (de) Italienische Sprache		409
4	Spanish (es) Idioma italiano		373
5	French (fr) Italien		353
6	Dutch (nl) Italiaans		228
7	Russian (ru) Итальянский язык		170
8	Japanese (ja) イタリア語		148
9	Portuguese (pt) Língua italiana		144
10	Turkish (tr) İtalyanca		126

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Italian language		5
2	French (fr) Italien		5
3	Persian (fa) زبان ایتالیایی		3
4	Serbian (sr) Италијански језик		2
5	Greek (el) Ιταλική γλώσσα		1
6	Basque (eu) Italiera		1
7	Latin (la) Lingua Italiana		1
8	Simple English (simple) Italian language		1
9	Turkish (tr) İtalyanca		1
10	Arabic (ar) اللغة الإيطالية		0

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

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

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