Ligature (writing)

Ligature - glyph resulting from the orthographic combination or calligraphic ornementation of two or more basic letter forms into a single typographic or handwritten character. Article "Ligature (writing)" in English Wikipedia has 87.3 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 96 references and 32 sections.

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

In July 2024 the article "Ligature (writing)" was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Ligature (writing)", its content was written by 423 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1640 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 416663 times in English Wikipedia (12^th place) and cited 424112 times in all languages (203^rd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1018 in March 2004
• Global: #1703 in March 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #29183 in January 2015
• Global: #28695 in November 2015

There are 45 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 August 1, 2024 (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) Ligature (writing)		87.304
2	Russian (ru) Лигатура (типографика)		73.0999
3	Chinese (zh) 合字		61.0467
4	German (de) Ligatur (Typografie)		52.6025
5	Norwegian (no) Ligatur (typografi)		40.1125
6	Estonian (et) Ligatuur (kiri)		36.09
7	Armenian (hy) Կցագիր		32.9805
8	Persian (fa) لیگچر		31.7475
9	French (fr) Ligature (écriture)		29.4643
10	Indonesian (id) Ligatur		27.5702

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Ligature (writing)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ligature (writing)		3 641 367
2	German (de) Ligatur (Typografie)		908 884
3	Russian (ru) Лигатура (типографика)		631 716
4	French (fr) Ligature (écriture)		378 476
5	Japanese (ja) 合字		343 995
6	Polish (pl) Ligatura (pismo)		305 478
7	Chinese (zh) 合字		154 397
8	Dutch (nl) Ligatuur (typografie)		137 711
9	Swedish (sv) Ligatur		137 023
10	Spanish (es) Ligadura (tipografía)		135 312

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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 "Ligature (writing)" in July 2024

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ligature (writing)		15 916
2	Russian (ru) Лигатура (типографика)		3 275
3	German (de) Ligatur (Typografie)		2 040
4	Japanese (ja) 合字		1 709
5	French (fr) Ligature (écriture)		1 216
6	Polish (pl) Ligatura (pismo)		912
7	Chinese (zh) 合字		792
8	Spanish (es) Ligadura (tipografía)		481
9	Dutch (nl) Ligatuur (typografie)		470
10	Swedish (sv) Ligatur		366

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ligature (writing)		423
2	German (de) Ligatur (Typografie)		206
3	French (fr) Ligature (écriture)		149
4	Dutch (nl) Ligatuur (typografie)		84
5	Russian (ru) Лигатура (типографика)		84
6	Polish (pl) Ligatura (pismo)		59
7	Japanese (ja) 合字		51
8	Italian (it) Legatura (tipografia)		47
9	Hebrew (he) ליגטורה		44
10	Chinese (zh) 合字		44

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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 "Ligature (writing)" with the highest AI in July 2024

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Armenian (hy) Կցագիր		2
2	Russian (ru) Лигатура (типографика)		2
3	English (en) Ligature (writing)		1
4	Finnish (fi) Ligatuuri		1
5	French (fr) Ligature (écriture)		1
6	Italian (it) Legatura (tipografia)		1
7	Polish (pl) Ligatura (pismo)		1
8	Arabic (ar) وصلات أبجدية		0
9	Azerbaijani (az) Liqatura		0
10	Belarusian (be) Лігатура (злучэнне літар)		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 "Ligature (writing)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Ligature (writing)		416 663
2	French (fr) Ligature (écriture)		2 609
3	Chinese (zh) 合字		857
4	Russian (ru) Лигатура (типографика)		573
5	German (de) Ligatur (Typografie)		341
6	Japanese (ja) 合字		322
7	Norwegian (no) Ligatur (typografi)		293
8	Finnish (fi) Ligatuuri		258
9	Swedish (sv) Ligatur		242
10	Persian (fa) لیگچر		213

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic وصلات أبجدية
az	Azerbaijani Liqatura
be	Belarusian Лігатура (злучэнне літар)
bg	Bulgarian Лигатура (типография)
ca	Catalan Lligadura (tipografia)
cs	Czech Ligatura (písmo)
da	Danish Ligatur
de	German Ligatur (Typografie)
el	Greek Σύμπλεγμα (τυπογραφία)
en	English Ligature (writing)
eo	Esperanto Ligaturo
es	Spanish Ligadura (tipografía)
et	Estonian Ligatuur (kiri)
fa	Persian لیگچر
fi	Finnish Ligatuuri
fr	French Ligature (écriture)
gl	Galician Ligadura (tipografía)
he	Hebrew ליגטורה
hu	Hungarian Ligatúra
hy	Armenian Կցագիր
id	Indonesian Ligatur
it	Italian Legatura (tipografia)
ja	Japanese 合字
ka	Georgian ლიგატურა (პოლიგრაფია)
kk	Kazakh Лигатура (типография)
ko	Korean 합자
la	Latin Ligatura
lt	Lithuanian Ligatūra (poligrafija)
nl	Dutch Ligatuur (typografie)
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Ligatur
no	Norwegian Ligatur (typografi)
pl	Polish Ligatura (pismo)
pt	Portuguese Ligadura tipográfica
ro	Romanian Ligatură (tipografie)
ru	Russian Лигатура (типографика)
simple	Simple English Ligature (writing)
sk	Slovak Ligatúra (písmo)
sr	Serbian Лигатура
sv	Swedish Ligatur
th	Thai รูปอักขระแฝด
tr	Turkish Ligatür
uk	Ukrainian Лігатура (типографія)
ur	Urdu ترسیمہ
vi	Vietnamese Chữ ghép
zh	Chinese 合字

Best Rank

English: #29183 01.2015

Global: #28695 11.2015

Best Rank

English: #1018 03.2004

Global: #1703 03.2004

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