Lexicostatistics

Lexicostatistics - approach to comparative linguistics that involves quantitative comparison of lexical cognates; related to the comparative method but does not reconstruct a proto-language. Article “Lexicostatistics” in English Wikipedia has 36.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 17 references and 14 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.94 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Lexicostatistics”, its content was written by 50 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 110 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 119 times in English Wikipedia and cited 322 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #20127 in November 2003
• Global: #35893 in November 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #423411 in April 2014
• Global: #611917 in February 2015

There are 12 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	Chinese (zh) 词汇统计学		37.9063
2	English (en) Lexicostatistics		36.929
3	Greek (el) Λεξικοστατιστική		23.7783
4	Russian (ru) Лексикостатистика		22.4966
5	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Leksikostatistikk		15.4116
6	Indonesian (id) Leksikostatistika		13.1406
7	German (de) Lexikostatistik		11.2868
8	Dutch (nl) Lexicostatistiek		10.5009
9	Hungarian (hu) Lexikostatisztika		7.7689
10	Spanish (es) Lexicoestadística		2.7953

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lexicostatistics		167 542
2	Russian (ru) Лексикостатистика		21 520
3	German (de) Lexikostatistik		20 538
4	Japanese (ja) 語彙統計学		12 654
5	Indonesian (id) Leksikostatistika		6 282
6	Dutch (nl) Lexicostatistiek		4 423
7	Hungarian (hu) Lexikostatisztika		3 809
8	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Leksikostatistikk		1 789
9	Greek (el) Λεξικοστατιστική		1 639
10	Spanish (es) Lexicoestadística		797

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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 "Lexicostatistics" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lexicostatistics		1 411
2	Russian (ru) Лексикостатистика		202
3	Chinese (zh) 词汇统计学		31
4	Indonesian (id) Leksikostatistika		28
5	Japanese (ja) 語彙統計学		26
6	Spanish (es) Lexicoestadística		22
7	German (de) Lexikostatistik		18
8	Hungarian (hu) Lexikostatisztika		7
9	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Leksikostatistikk		7
10	Greek (el) Λεξικοστατιστική		5

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Lexicostatistics		50
2	German (de) Lexikostatistik		14
3	Hungarian (hu) Lexikostatisztika		14
4	Dutch (nl) Lexicostatistiek		8
5	Japanese (ja) 語彙統計学		6
6	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Leksikostatistikk		4
7	Russian (ru) Лексикостатистика		4
8	Chinese (zh) 词汇统计学		3
9	Greek (el) Λεξικοστατιστική		2
10	Spanish (es) Lexicoestadística		2

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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 "Lexicostatistics" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Lexikostatistik		0
2	Greek (el) Λεξικοστατιστική		0
3	English (en) Lexicostatistics		0
4	Spanish (es) Lexicoestadística		0
5	Persian (fa) آمارواژگان		0
6	Hungarian (hu) Lexikostatisztika		0
7	Indonesian (id) Leksikostatistika		0
8	Japanese (ja) 語彙統計学		0
9	Dutch (nl) Lexicostatistiek		0
10	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Leksikostatistikk		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 "Lexicostatistics" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Lexicostatistics		119
2	Russian (ru) Лексикостатистика		95
3	German (de) Lexikostatistik		22
4	Indonesian (id) Leksikostatistika		21
5	Japanese (ja) 語彙統計学		21
6	Spanish (es) Lexicoestadística		17
7	Chinese (zh) 词汇统计学		10
8	Dutch (nl) Lexicostatistiek		8
9	Hungarian (hu) Lexikostatisztika		4
10	Greek (el) Λεξικοστατιστική		3

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#	Language	Value
de	German Lexikostatistik
el	Greek Λεξικοστατιστική
en	English Lexicostatistics
es	Spanish Lexicoestadística
fa	Persian آمارواژگان
hu	Hungarian Lexikostatisztika
id	Indonesian Leksikostatistika
ja	Japanese 語彙統計学
nl	Dutch Lexicostatistiek
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Leksikostatistikk
ru	Russian Лексикостатистика
zh	Chinese 词汇统计学

Best Rank

English: #423411 04.2014

Global: #611917 02.2015

Best Rank

English: #20127 11.2003

Global: #35893 11.2003

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