Kural

Tirukkuṟaḷ - Classic Tamil-language sacred poetic text. This book is the 942^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 996^th most popular book in English Wikipedia. Article “Kural” in English Wikipedia has 100 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 540 references and 27 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2026 the article “Kural” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 7 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Kural”, its content was written by 394 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 660 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Tirukkuṟaḷ is on the 996^th place in local ranking of books in English Wikipedia and on the 942^nd place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 3812 times in English Wikipedia (7343^rd place) and cited 4614 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #6512 in August 2020
• Global: #21552 in August 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #26222 in November 2019
• Global: #31231 in October 2023

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, 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	English (en) Kural		100
2	Tamil (ta) திருக்குறள்		100
3	Persian (fa) تیروکورال		100
4	German (de) Tirukkural		58.875
5	Simple English (simple) Kural		47.8461
6	Hindi (hi) तिरुक्कुरल		43.6661
7	Malay (ms) Thirukkural		35.5652
8	Chinese (zh) 蒂魯古拉爾		31.7801
9	Spanish (es) Tirukkural		20.1766
10	French (fr) Tirukkuṟaḷ		19.6463

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Kural" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Kural		3 063 336
2	Tamil (ta) திருக்குறள்		2 602 932
3	Hindi (hi) तिरुक्कुरल		58 388
4	German (de) Tirukkural		40 000
5	French (fr) Tirukkuṟaḷ		32 294
6	Polish (pl) Tirukkural		23 086
7	Chinese (zh) 蒂魯古拉爾		15 527
8	Japanese (ja) ティルックラル		7 908
9	Russian (ru) Тируккурал		6 888
10	Simple English (simple) Kural		5 496

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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 "Kural" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Kural		9 955
2	Tamil (ta) திருக்குறள்		6 500
3	German (de) Tirukkural		178
4	Hindi (hi) तिरुक्कुरल		104
5	Chinese (zh) 蒂魯古拉爾		101
6	French (fr) Tirukkuṟaḷ		96
7	Spanish (es) Tirukkural		79
8	Russian (ru) Тируккурал		61
9	Simple English (simple) Kural		51
10	Japanese (ja) ティルックラル		46

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Kural		394
2	Tamil (ta) திருக்குறள்		117
3	German (de) Tirukkural		48
4	French (fr) Tirukkuṟaḷ		30
5	Hindi (hi) तिरुक्कुरल		26
6	Polish (pl) Tirukkural		12
7	Chinese (zh) 蒂魯古拉爾		7
8	Spanish (es) Tirukkural		5
9	Russian (ru) Тируккурал		5
10	Ukrainian (uk) Тіруккурал		5

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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 "Kural" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Kural		4
2	Persian (fa) تیروکورال		1
3	Simple English (simple) Kural		1
4	Tamil (ta) திருக்குறள்		1
5	German (de) Tirukkural		0
6	Esperanto (eo) Tirukkural		0
7	Spanish (es) Tirukkural		0
8	French (fr) Tirukkuṟaḷ		0
9	Hindi (hi) तिरुक्कुरल		0
10	Japanese (ja) ティルックラル		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 "Kural" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Kural		3 812
2	Tamil (ta) திருக்குறள்		509
3	Hindi (hi) तिरुक्कुरल		63
4	Chinese (zh) 蒂魯古拉爾		62
5	German (de) Tirukkural		28
6	Simple English (simple) Kural		27
7	Persian (fa) تیروکورال		23
8	Japanese (ja) ティルックラル		20
9	French (fr) Tirukkuṟaḷ		18
10	Spanish (es) Tirukkural		15

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#	Language	Value
de	German Tirukkural
en	English Kural
eo	Esperanto Tirukkural
es	Spanish Tirukkural
fa	Persian تیروکورال
fr	French Tirukkuṟaḷ
hi	Hindi तिरुक्कुरल
ja	Japanese ティルックラル
ms	Malay Thirukkural
pl	Polish Tirukkural
ru	Russian Тируккурал
simple	Simple English Kural
ta	Tamil திருக்குறள்
uk	Ukrainian Тіруккурал
zh	Chinese 蒂魯古拉爾

Best Rank

English: #26222 11.2019

Global: #31231 10.2023

Best Rank

English: #6512 08.2020

Global: #21552 08.2020

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