Literary language

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Literary language

Quality:

Literary language - form of a language used in its literary writing, either a non-standard dialect or standardized variety of the language. Article “Literary language” in English Wikipedia has 48.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 28 references and 35 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.54 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.

Since the creation of article “Literary language”, its content was written by 148 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 399 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 429 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1848 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #11611 in April 2005
  • Global: #16986 in November 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #135965 in September 2021
  • Global: #87821 in September 2021

There are 21 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Literary language
48.187
2Hungarian (hu)
Irodalmi nyelv
40.8935
3Catalan (ca)
Llengua literària
36.3109
4Polish (pl)
Język literacki
35.0432
5Romanian (ro)
Limbă literară
31.3294
6French (fr)
Langue littéraire
28.1776
7Esperanto (eo)
Literatura lingvo
24.8651
8Persian (fa)
زبان ادبی
23.5944
9Ukrainian (uk)
Літературна мова
21.0513
10Arabic (ar)
لغة أدبية
20.8431
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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 "Literary language" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Literary language
901 915
2Ukrainian (uk)
Літературна мова
479 610
3Japanese (ja)
文語
331 095
4Polish (pl)
Język literacki
211 323
5Spanish (es)
Lengua literaria
151 928
6German (de)
Literatursprache
96 197
7Portuguese (pt)
Língua literária
72 925
8Romanian (ro)
Limbă literară
45 475
9Kazakh (kk)
Көркем әдебиет тілі
36 343
10Turkish (tr)
Edebî dil
33 350
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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 2026

The most popular language versions of the article "Literary language" in June 2026
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Literary language
2 579
2Turkish (tr)
Edebî dil
822
3Japanese (ja)
文語
604
4Polish (pl)
Język literacki
311
5German (de)
Literatursprache
163
6Ukrainian (uk)
Літературна мова
138
7Spanish (es)
Lengua literaria
118
8Chinese (zh)
文学语言
77
9Hungarian (hu)
Irodalmi nyelv
75
10French (fr)
Langue littéraire
48
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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 "Literary language" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Literary language
148
2Polish (pl)
Język literacki
39
3Japanese (ja)
文語
34
4Ukrainian (uk)
Літературна мова
33
5German (de)
Literatursprache
32
6Korean (ko)
문어 (언어)
16
7Hungarian (hu)
Irodalmi nyelv
15
8Portuguese (pt)
Língua literária
13
9Spanish (es)
Lengua literaria
12
10Chinese (zh)
文学语言
9
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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 2026

Language versions of the article "Literary language" with the highest AI in June 2026
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Arabic (ar)
لغة أدبية
1
2Romanian (ro)
Limbă literară
1
3Chinese (zh)
文学语言
1
4Catalan (ca)
Llengua literària
0
5German (de)
Literatursprache
0
6English (en)
Literary language
0
7Esperanto (eo)
Literatura lingvo
0
8Spanish (es)
Lengua literaria
0
9Persian (fa)
زبان ادبی
0
10French (fr)
Langue littéraire
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 "Literary language" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Literary language
429
2Ukrainian (uk)
Літературна мова
282
3Polish (pl)
Język literacki
224
4Japanese (ja)
文語
193
5German (de)
Literatursprache
115
6Korean (ko)
문어 (언어)
94
7Romanian (ro)
Limbă literară
94
8Hungarian (hu)
Irodalmi nyelv
67
9French (fr)
Langue littéraire
52
10Portuguese (pt)
Língua literária
51
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
لغة أدبية
caCatalan
Llengua literària
deGerman
Literatursprache
enEnglish
Literary language
eoEsperanto
Literatura lingvo
esSpanish
Lengua literaria
faPersian
زبان ادبی
frFrench
Langue littéraire
glGalician
Lingua literaria
huHungarian
Irodalmi nyelv
idIndonesian
Bahasa sastra
jaJapanese
文語
kkKazakh
Көркем әдебиет тілі
koKorean
문어 (언어)
msMalay
Bahasa kesusasteraan
plPolish
Język literacki
ptPortuguese
Língua literária
roRomanian
Limbă literară
trTurkish
Edebî dil
ukUkrainian
Літературна мова
zhChinese
文学语言

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#135965
09.2021
Global:
#87821
09.2021

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#11611
04.2005
Global:
#16986
11.2003

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2025 – June 2026)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Literary language from Wikipedia articles about Rhetorical mode, Classical Japanese, Classical Latin, Genbun itchi and Homer. Whereas reading the article about Literary language people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Register, Classical Japanese, Diglossia, Standard language and Language.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

ja: 文語

News from 1 July 2026

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