Jespersen's cycle

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Jespersen's cycle

Quality:

Jespersen's Cycle - historical development of the expression of negation in some languages (preverbal negation marker → elements both before and after the verb → loss of the original preverbal marker). Article “Jespersen's cycle” in English Wikipedia has 25.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 14 references and 5 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.34 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Jespersen's cycle”, its content was written by 55 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 70 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 20 times in English Wikipedia and cited 26 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #121885 in September 2022
  • Global: #174935 in February 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #341585 in March 2025
  • Global: #465257 in November 2021

There are 6 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
1Malay (ms)
Kitaran Jespersen
43.4862
2English (en)
Jespersen's cycle
25.5007
3German (de)
Jespersen-Zyklus
24.7761
4Spanish (es)
Ciclo de Jespersen
23.4099
5Portuguese (pt)
Ciclo de Jerspersen
17.4654
6French (fr)
Cycle de Jespersen
15.8156
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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 "Jespersen's cycle" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Jespersen's cycle
122 891
2French (fr)
Cycle de Jespersen
20 592
3German (de)
Jespersen-Zyklus
4 487
4Spanish (es)
Ciclo de Jespersen
1 427
5Portuguese (pt)
Ciclo de Jerspersen
52
6Malay (ms)
Kitaran Jespersen
27
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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 "Jespersen's cycle" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Jespersen's cycle
1 562
2French (fr)
Cycle de Jespersen
80
3German (de)
Jespersen-Zyklus
78
4Spanish (es)
Ciclo de Jespersen
37
5Portuguese (pt)
Ciclo de Jerspersen
8
6Malay (ms)
Kitaran Jespersen
4
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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 "Jespersen's cycle" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Jespersen's cycle
55
2German (de)
Jespersen-Zyklus
7
3French (fr)
Cycle de Jespersen
5
4Spanish (es)
Ciclo de Jespersen
1
5Malay (ms)
Kitaran Jespersen
1
6Portuguese (pt)
Ciclo de Jerspersen
1
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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 "Jespersen's cycle" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1German (de)
Jespersen-Zyklus
0
2English (en)
Jespersen's cycle
0
3Spanish (es)
Ciclo de Jespersen
0
4French (fr)
Cycle de Jespersen
0
5Malay (ms)
Kitaran Jespersen
0
6Portuguese (pt)
Ciclo de Jerspersen
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 "Jespersen's cycle" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Jespersen's cycle
20
2French (fr)
Cycle de Jespersen
3
3Spanish (es)
Ciclo de Jespersen
2
4German (de)
Jespersen-Zyklus
1
5Malay (ms)
Kitaran Jespersen
0
6Portuguese (pt)
Ciclo de Jerspersen
0
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
deGerman
Jespersen-Zyklus
enEnglish
Jespersen's cycle
esSpanish
Ciclo de Jespersen
frFrench
Cycle de Jespersen
msMalay
Kitaran Jespersen
ptPortuguese
Ciclo de Jerspersen

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#341585
03.2025
Global:
#465257
11.2021

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#121885
09.2022
Global:
#174935
02.2020

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Jespersen's Cycle from Wikipedia articles about Double negative, Brazilian Portuguese, Otto Jespersen, Affirmation and negation and Aggressive. Whereas reading the article about Jespersen's Cycle people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Otto Jespersen, Do-support, Affirmation and negation, Chamic and Historical linguistics.

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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