Language family

Quality:

Language family - group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor. Article “Language family” in English Wikipedia has 51.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 36 references and 18 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 5.7 points.

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

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 8848^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 9266^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Language family” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Language family”, its content was written by 593 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2218 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 11646 times in English Wikipedia (1684^th place) and cited 54075 times in all languages (3042^nd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #20 in January 2002
• Global: #14 in January 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #891 in May 2011
• Global: #2196 in May 2011

There are 50 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) Language family		51.3231
2	Malay (ms) Keluarga bahasa		50
3	Spanish (es) Familia de lenguas		43.6011
4	Ukrainian (uk) Мовна сім'я		42.487
5	Vietnamese (vi) Ngữ hệ		42.0815
6	Croatian (hr) Jezična porodica		40.4659
7	Chinese (zh) 语系		39.5127
8	Hungarian (hu) Nyelvcsalád		37.3739
9	Esperanto (eo) Lingva familio		32.2236
10	French (fr) Famille de langues		26.8557

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Language family		13 011 500
2	Spanish (es) Familia de lenguas		2 898 157
3	German (de) Sprachfamilie		1 052 713
4	Turkish (tr) Dil ailesi		967 510
5	Chinese (zh) 语系		908 569
6	Portuguese (pt) Família linguística		625 623
7	Russian (ru) Языковая семья		597 847
8	Japanese (ja) 語族		550 390
9	Italian (it) Famiglia linguistica		538 737
10	French (fr) Famille de langues		534 223

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) Language family		64 904
2	Spanish (es) Familia de lenguas		5 803
3	Italian (it) Famiglia linguistica		3 986
4	Russian (ru) Языковая семья		3 832
5	Chinese (zh) 语系		3 514
6	Portuguese (pt) Família linguística		3 294
7	French (fr) Famille de langues		3 017
8	Japanese (ja) 語族		2 687
9	German (de) Sprachfamilie		2 498
10	Polish (pl) Rodzina językowa		2 006

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Language family		593
2	German (de) Sprachfamilie		132
3	Spanish (es) Familia de lenguas		123
4	Italian (it) Famiglia linguistica		103
5	Chinese (zh) 语系		74
6	Vietnamese (vi) Ngữ hệ		71
7	Esperanto (eo) Lingva familio		69
8	Dutch (nl) Taalfamilie		66
9	Japanese (ja) 語族		63
10	Hebrew (he) משפחת שפות		62

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) Language family		4
2	Catalan (ca) Família lingüística		1
3	Basque (eu) Hizkuntza familia		1
4	French (fr) Famille de langues		1
5	Japanese (ja) 語族		1
6	Uzbek (uz) Tillar oilasi		1
7	Chinese (zh) 语系		1
8	Arabic (ar) أسرة لغات		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Езиково семейство		0
10	Czech (cs) Jazyková rodina		0

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

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