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 48.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). 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.

In June 2025 the article “Literary language” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Literary language”, its content was written by 142 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 385 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 411 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1633 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #11617 in April 2005
  • Global: #16984 in November 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #135972 in September 2021
  • Global: #79920 in May 2025

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, 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)
Literary language
48.3499
2Hungarian (hu)
Irodalmi nyelv
40.9664
3Catalan (ca)
Llengua literària
36.2471
4Polish (pl)
Język literacki
35.1561
5Romanian (ro)
Limbă literară
31.4151
6French (fr)
Langue littéraire
28.2522
7Esperanto (eo)
Literatura lingvo
24.9085
8Persian (fa)
زبان ادبی
23.6143
9Ukrainian (uk)
Літературна мова
22.5881
10Arabic (ar)
لغة أدبية
20.9293
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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
873 889
2Ukrainian (uk)
Літературна мова
443 833
3Japanese (ja)
文語
322 585
4Polish (pl)
Język literacki
207 092
5Spanish (es)
Lengua literaria
148 354
6German (de)
Literatursprache
94 167
7Portuguese (pt)
Língua literária
72 276
8Romanian (ro)
Limbă literară
44 940
9Kazakh (kk)
Көркем әдебиет тілі
35 950
10Hungarian (hu)
Irodalmi nyelv
31 340
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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 "Literary language" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Literary language
4 795
2Turkish (tr)
Edebî dil
1 027
3Japanese (ja)
文語
717
4Spanish (es)
Lengua literaria
539
5Polish (pl)
Język literacki
282
6Ukrainian (uk)
Літературна мова
237
7German (de)
Literatursprache
200
8Chinese (zh)
文学语言
104
9Romanian (ro)
Limbă literară
93
10Korean (ko)
문어 (언어)
74
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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
142
2Polish (pl)
Język literacki
39
3Japanese (ja)
文語
33
4Ukrainian (uk)
Літературна мова
33
5German (de)
Literatursprache
30
6Hungarian (hu)
Irodalmi nyelv
15
7Korean (ko)
문어 (언어)
15
8Portuguese (pt)
Língua literária
13
9Spanish (es)
Lengua literaria
12
10Kazakh (kk)
Көркем әдебиет тілі
8
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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 "Literary language" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Literary language
2
2Hungarian (hu)
Irodalmi nyelv
1
3Polish (pl)
Język literacki
1
4Arabic (ar)
لغة أدبية
0
5Catalan (ca)
Llengua literària
0
6German (de)
Literatursprache
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
411
2Polish (pl)
Język literacki
217
3Japanese (ja)
文語
190
4Ukrainian (uk)
Літературна мова
177
5German (de)
Literatursprache
109
6Romanian (ro)
Limbă literară
91
7Hungarian (hu)
Irodalmi nyelv
66
8Korean (ko)
문어 (언어)
52
9French (fr)
Langue littéraire
51
10Portuguese (pt)
Língua literária
47
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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:
#135972
09.2021
Global:
#79920
05.2025

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#11617
04.2005
Global:
#16984
11.2003

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Literary language from Wikipedia articles about Classical Japanese, Classical Latin, Formal language, Genbun itchi and Old Church Slavonic. Whereas reading the article about Literary language people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Classical Japanese, Register, 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

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