Language game (philosophy)

Language-game - philosophical concept developed by Ludwig Wittgenstein, referring to simple examples of language use and the actions into which the language is woven. Article "Language game (philosophy)" in English Wikipedia has 24.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 11 references and 6 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article "Language game (philosophy)" was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Language game (philosophy)", its content was written by 85 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 378 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 100 times in English Wikipedia and cited 649 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #48545 in December 2013
• Global: #39409 in October 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #133998 in December 2019
• Global: #135950 in April 2019

There are 22 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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Hungarian (hu) Nyelvjáték		35.9526
2	Indonesian (id) Tata Permainan Bahasa		28.6942
3	Czech (cs) Řečové hry		24.9246
4	English (en) Language game (philosophy)		24.2768
5	French (fr) Jeu de langage (philosophie)		23.6219
6	Spanish (es) Juego del lenguaje (filosofía)		17.989
7	Finnish (fi) Kielipeli		16.5521
8	German (de) Sprachspiel		16.4618
9	Russian (ru) Языковая игра		15.5208
10	Korean (ko) 언어놀이		15.3709

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Language game (philosophy)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Language game (philosophy)		1 143 157
2	Russian (ru) Языковая игра		256 139
3	German (de) Sprachspiel		235 069
4	Japanese (ja) 言語ゲーム		167 963
5	Spanish (es) Juego del lenguaje (filosofía)		147 836
6	French (fr) Jeu de langage (philosophie)		116 340
7	Italian (it) Teoria dei giochi linguistici		84 358
8	Portuguese (pt) Jogo de linguagem (filosofia)		51 588
9	Dutch (nl) Taalspel (Wittgenstein)		37 787
10	Finnish (fi) Kielipeli		32 148

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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 "Language game (philosophy)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Language game (philosophy)		7 058
2	Japanese (ja) 言語ゲーム		953
3	Russian (ru) Языковая игра		794
4	German (de) Sprachspiel		527
5	Spanish (es) Juego del lenguaje (filosofía)		418
6	French (fr) Jeu de langage (philosophie)		365
7	Italian (it) Teoria dei giochi linguistici		222
8	Korean (ko) 언어놀이		145
9	Portuguese (pt) Jogo de linguagem (filosofia)		91
10	Dutch (nl) Taalspel (Wittgenstein)		84

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Language game (philosophy)		85
2	German (de) Sprachspiel		72
3	French (fr) Jeu de langage (philosophie)		45
4	Russian (ru) Языковая игра		31
5	Italian (it) Teoria dei giochi linguistici		25
6	Dutch (nl) Taalspel (Wittgenstein)		21
7	Spanish (es) Juego del lenguaje (filosofía)		14
8	Japanese (ja) 言語ゲーム		13
9	Swedish (sv) Språkspel		10
10	Finnish (fi) Kielipeli		9

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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 "Language game (philosophy)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Language game (philosophy)		3
2	Czech (cs) Řečové hry		1
3	Arabic (ar) لعبة لغوية (فلسفة)		0
4	German (de) Sprachspiel		0
5	Spanish (es) Juego del lenguaje (filosofía)		0
6	Estonian (et) Keelemäng		0
7	Persian (fa) بازی زبانی (فلسفه)		0
8	Finnish (fi) Kielipeli		0
9	French (fr) Jeu de langage (philosophie)		0
10	Hungarian (hu) Nyelvjáték		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 "Language game (philosophy)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Persian (fa) بازی زبانی (فلسفه)		153
2	French (fr) Jeu de langage (philosophie)		105
3	English (en) Language game (philosophy)		100
4	German (de) Sprachspiel		91
5	Russian (ru) Языковая игра		42
6	Korean (ko) 언어놀이		36
7	Japanese (ja) 言語ゲーム		26
8	Finnish (fi) Kielipeli		17
9	Dutch (nl) Taalspel (Wittgenstein)		17
10	Spanish (es) Juego del lenguaje (filosofía)		13

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic لعبة لغوية (فلسفة)
cs	Czech Řečové hry
de	German Sprachspiel
en	English Language game (philosophy)
es	Spanish Juego del lenguaje (filosofía)
et	Estonian Keelemäng
fa	Persian بازی زبانی (فلسفه)
fi	Finnish Kielipeli
fr	French Jeu de langage (philosophie)
hu	Hungarian Nyelvjáték
hy	Armenian Լեզվական խաղ (փիլիսոփայություն)
id	Indonesian Tata Permainan Bahasa
it	Italian Teoria dei giochi linguistici
ja	Japanese 言語ゲーム
ko	Korean 언어놀이
nl	Dutch Taalspel (Wittgenstein)
no	Norwegian Språkspill
pt	Portuguese Jogo de linguagem (filosofia)
ru	Russian Языковая игра
sk	Slovak Jazyková hra
sv	Swedish Språkspel
uk	Ukrainian Мовна гра

Best Rank

English: #133998 12.2019

Global: #135950 04.2019

Best Rank

English: #48545 12.2013

Global: #39409 10.2005

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