Language shift

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Language shift

Quality:

Language shift - substitution of a community's language by another one over time. Article “Language shift” in English Wikipedia has 77.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 119 references and 44 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 13.63 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.

In June 2025 the article “Language shift” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Language shift”, its content was written by 246 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 545 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 503 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1526 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #16541 in April 2016
  • Global: #15951 in September 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #69620 in May 2015
  • Global: #111152 in May 2015

There are 26 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
1English (en)
Language shift
77.2568
2Spanish (es)
Sustitución lingüística
46.5992
3Romanian (ro)
Schimbare de limbă
35.8274
4Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn)
Språkskifte
33.86
5Catalan (ca)
Substitució lingüística
33.8492
6German (de)
Sprachwechsel (Linguistik)
30.3598
7French (fr)
Conversion linguistique
27.9489
8Arabic (ar)
تحول لغوي
26.6524
9Chinese (zh)
語言替換
24.5681
10Galician (gl)
Substitución lingüística
23.5892
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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 shift" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Language shift
933 902
2Spanish (es)
Sustitución lingüística
207 193
3Russian (ru)
Языковая ассимиляция
52 561
4Catalan (ca)
Substitució lingüística
50 367
5German (de)
Sprachwechsel (Linguistik)
44 717
6Japanese (ja)
言語交替
42 201
7French (fr)
Conversion linguistique
37 810
8Italian (it)
Deriva linguistica
24 000
9Hungarian (hu)
Nyelvcsere
16 358
10Chinese (zh)
語言替換
14 672
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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 "Language shift" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Language shift
5 577
2Japanese (ja)
言語交替
327
3Russian (ru)
Языковая ассимиляция
307
4Chinese (zh)
語言替換
295
5Spanish (es)
Sustitución lingüística
211
6French (fr)
Conversion linguistique
155
7German (de)
Sprachwechsel (Linguistik)
95
8Catalan (ca)
Substitució lingüística
93
9Italian (it)
Deriva linguistica
71
10Hungarian (hu)
Nyelvcsere
47
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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 shift" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Language shift
246
2Spanish (es)
Sustitución lingüística
58
3German (de)
Sprachwechsel (Linguistik)
38
4French (fr)
Conversion linguistique
33
5Italian (it)
Deriva linguistica
25
6Hungarian (hu)
Nyelvcsere
20
7Catalan (ca)
Substitució lingüística
18
8Chinese (zh)
語言替換
16
9Finnish (fi)
Kielenvaihto
15
10Russian (ru)
Языковая ассимиляция
15
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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 "Language shift" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Language shift
3
2Arabic (ar)
تحول لغوي
0
3Catalan (ca)
Substitució lingüística
0
4Danish (da)
Sprogskifte
0
5German (de)
Sprachwechsel (Linguistik)
0
6Esperanto (eo)
Lingvoanstataŭado
0
7Spanish (es)
Sustitución lingüística
0
8Estonian (et)
Keelevahetus
0
9Persian (fa)
جایگزینی زبان
0
10Finnish (fi)
Kielenvaihto
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 "Language shift" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Language shift
503
2Portuguese (pt)
Assimilação linguística
111
3Spanish (es)
Sustitución lingüística
83
4Japanese (ja)
言語交替
80
5Chinese (zh)
語言替換
80
6French (fr)
Conversion linguistique
78
7Italian (it)
Deriva linguistica
75
8Catalan (ca)
Substitució lingüística
74
9German (de)
Sprachwechsel (Linguistik)
62
10Russian (ru)
Языковая ассимиляция
59
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
تحول لغوي
caCatalan
Substitució lingüística
daDanish
Sprogskifte
deGerman
Sprachwechsel (Linguistik)
enEnglish
Language shift
eoEsperanto
Lingvoanstataŭado
esSpanish
Sustitución lingüística
etEstonian
Keelevahetus
faPersian
جایگزینی زبان
fiFinnish
Kielenvaihto
frFrench
Conversion linguistique
glGalician
Substitución lingüística
huHungarian
Nyelvcsere
idIndonesian
Peralihan bahasa
itItalian
Deriva linguistica
jaJapanese
言語交替
kkKazakh
Ассимиляция (тілдік ығысу)
koKorean
언어 교체
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Språkskifte
plPolish
Przesunięcie językowe
ptPortuguese
Assimilação linguística
roRomanian
Schimbare de limbă
ruRussian
Языковая ассимиляция
taTamil
மொழி நகர்வு
zhChinese
語言替換
zhminnanMin Nan
Giân-gú choán-î

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#69620
05.2015
Global:
#111152
05.2015

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#16541
04.2016
Global:
#15951
09.2020

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Language shift from Wikipedia articles about Language change, Dead language, List of languages by total number of speakers, List of languages by number of native speakers and English-speaking world. Whereas reading the article about Language shift people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Gaulish, Language revitalization, Carinthia, Cornish and Speech community.

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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