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Quality:

Language - general system which gives humans the ability to communicate. Article “Language” in English Wikipedia has 91.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 192 references and 36 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:
English Wikipedia:
The 3544th most popular in English Wikipedia.
The 3207th most editable in English Wikipedia.
Global Wikipedia:
The 1563rd most popular in all topics.
The 1082nd most popular in AI.
Achievements in the last month:
English Wikipedia:
The 2845th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.
Global Wikipedia:
The 3445th most popular in all topics in the last month.
The 7470th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Language” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 24 authors in all languages (7470th place).

Since the creation of article “Language”, its content was written by 1348 registered users of English Wikipedia (3207th place) and edited by 6272 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1082nd place).

The article is cited 4624 times in English Wikipedia (5566th place) and cited 121295 times in all languages (1030th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #17 in November 2003
  • Global: #10 in November 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #430 in May 2011
  • Global: #481 in May 2011

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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Chinese (zh)
語言
94.2156
2Vietnamese (vi)
Ngôn ngữ
93.7311
3Korean (ko)
언어
93.6229
4Danish (da)
Sprog
93.1906
5Portuguese (pt)
Linguagem
91.7699
6English (en)
Language
91.3482
7Indonesian (id)
Bahasa
91.2507
8Esperanto (eo)
Lingvo
84.6818
9Kazakh (kk)
Тіл (лингвистика)
82.9869
10Catalan (ca)
Llenguatge
82.1427
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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 "Language" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Language
25 555 280
2Spanish (es)
Lenguaje
17 537 513
3Russian (ru)
Язык
3 725 202
4Portuguese (pt)
Linguagem
3 043 452
5German (de)
Sprache
2 961 667
6Hindi (hi)
भाषा
2 374 670
7Indonesian (id)
Bahasa
2 326 073
8Japanese (ja)
言語
2 050 477
9French (fr)
Langage
1 437 353
10Arabic (ar)
لغة
1 379 809
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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 2026

The most popular language versions of the article "Language" in June 2026
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Language
133 727
2Russian (ru)
Язык
10 731
3German (de)
Sprache
7 983
4Japanese (ja)
言語
4 471
5Portuguese (pt)
Linguagem
4 033
6Spanish (es)
Lenguaje
3 667
7Hindi (hi)
भाषा
3 593
8Chinese (zh)
語言
3 245
9Polish (pl)
Język (mowa)
3 025
10Persian (fa)
زبان
2 683
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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 "Language" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Language
1 348
2German (de)
Sprache
523
3Spanish (es)
Lenguaje
378
4Dutch (nl)
Taal
216
5Russian (ru)
Язык
208
6Japanese (ja)
言語
196
7Hebrew (he)
שפה
179
8Chinese (zh)
語言
172
9Italian (it)
Linguaggio
163
10Simple English (simple)
Language
147
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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 2026

Language versions of the article "Language" with the highest AI in June 2026
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Language
3
2Spanish (es)
Lenguaje
3
3Korean (ko)
언어
2
4Russian (ru)
Язык
2
5Simple English (simple)
Language
2
6Turkish (tr)
Dil
2
7Chinese (zh)
語言
2
8Catalan (ca)
Llenguatge
1
9Danish (da)
Sprog
1
10German (de)
Sprache
1
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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 "Language" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1Esperanto (eo)
Lingvo
31 292
2Hebrew (he)
שפה
9 184
3Swedish (sv)
Språk
6 259
4German (de)
Sprache
6 109
5English (en)
Language
4 624
6Czech (cs)
Jazyk (lingvistika)
4 542
7Polish (pl)
Język (mowa)
3 755
8Japanese (ja)
言語
3 460
9Indonesian (id)
Bahasa
3 432
10Ukrainian (uk)
Мова
3 232
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
لغة
azAzerbaijani
Dil
beBelarusian
Мова
bgBulgarian
Език (лингвистика)
caCatalan
Llenguatge
csCzech
Jazyk (lingvistika)
daDanish
Sprog
deGerman
Sprache
elGreek
Γλώσσα
enEnglish
Language
eoEsperanto
Lingvo
esSpanish
Lenguaje
etEstonian
Keel
euBasque
Mintzaira
faPersian
زبان
fiFinnish
Kieli
frFrench
Langage
glGalician
Linguaxe
heHebrew
שפה
hiHindi
भाषा
hrCroatian
Jezik
huHungarian
Nyelv
hyArmenian
Լեզու
idIndonesian
Bahasa
itItalian
Linguaggio
jaJapanese
言語
kaGeorgian
ენა
kkKazakh
Тіл (лингвистика)
koKorean
언어
laLatin
Lingua
ltLithuanian
Kalba
msMalay
Bahasa
nlDutch
Taal
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Språk
noNorwegian
Språk
plPolish
Język (mowa)
ptPortuguese
Linguagem
roRomanian
Limbă (comunicare)
ruRussian
Язык
shSerbo-Croatian
Jezik
simpleSimple English
Language
skSlovak
Jazyk (jazykoveda)
slSlovenian
Jezik (sredstvo sporazumevanja)
srSerbian
Језик
svSwedish
Språk
taTamil
மொழி
thThai
ภาษา
trTurkish
Dil
ukUkrainian
Мова
urUrdu
زبان
uzUzbek
Til
viVietnamese
Ngôn ngữ
voVolapük
Pük
zhChinese
語言
zhminnanMin Nan
Giân-gú

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#430
05.2011
Global:
#481
05.2011

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#17
11.2003
Global:
#10
11.2003

Local popularity rank history

Global popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2025 – June 2026)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Language from Wikipedia articles about Language family, Linguistics, Classical language, Writing and Word. Whereas reading the article about Language people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Communication, System, Human, Grammar and Complex system.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

id: Bahasa
ja: 言語
ar: لغة
tr: Dil
zh: 語言
nl: Taal
sv: Språk
he: שפה
simple: Language
fi: Kieli
hr: Jezik
uz: Til
az: Dil
hu: Nyelv
ko: 언어
da: Sprog
no: Språk
lt: Kalba
ms: Bahasa
sh: Jezik
et: Keel
eo: Lingvo
la: Lingua
zhminnan: Giân-gú
nn: Språk
vo: Pük

News from 1 July 2026

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.

In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Julián Quiñones, List of FIFA World Cup top goalscorers, Kylian Mbappé, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Erling Haaland, DR Congo national football team, Melat Kiros, FIFA World Cup.

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information