Modality (semantics)

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Modality (semantics)

Quality:

Linguistic modality - feature of language that allows for communicating things about, or based on, situations which need not be actual. Article “Modality (semantics)” in English Wikipedia has 25.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 6 references and 11 sections.

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

In June 2025 the article “Modality (semantics)” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 4 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Modality (semantics)”, its content was written by 105 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 320 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 705 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1583 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #26412 in August 2020
  • Global: #41903 in August 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #119192 in January 2011
  • Global: #84813 in January 2011

There are 17 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
1Dutch (nl)
Modaliteit (taalkunde)
68.8436
2German (de)
Modalität (Sprachwissenschaft)
55.0247
3Korean (ko)
양태 (문법)
48.7735
4Hungarian (hu)
Modalitás (nyelvészet)
43.6163
5Romanian (ro)
Modalitate (lingvistică)
42.0195
6Serbian (sr)
Modalnost
33.0545
7Czech (cs)
Modalita (lingvistika)
30.9804
8English (en)
Modality (semantics)
25.768
9Croatian (hr)
Modalnost
25.3815
10Persian (fa)
وجهیت
19.1479
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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 "Modality (semantics)" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Modality (semantics)
1 198 245
2Russian (ru)
Модальность (лингвистика)
507 339
3Japanese (ja)
モダリティ
487 886
4German (de)
Modalität (Sprachwissenschaft)
383 177
5Spanish (es)
Modalidad
131 340
6Dutch (nl)
Modaliteit (taalkunde)
93 850
7Ukrainian (uk)
Модальність (мовознавство)
41 745
8Czech (cs)
Modalita (lingvistika)
37 283
9Chinese (zh)
情态
30 575
10Hungarian (hu)
Modalitás (nyelvészet)
24 586
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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 "Modality (semantics)" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Modality (semantics)
5 302
2Russian (ru)
Модальность (лингвистика)
1 364
3Japanese (ja)
モダリティ
1 335
4German (de)
Modalität (Sprachwissenschaft)
545
5Spanish (es)
Modalidad
370
6Korean (ko)
양태 (문법)
329
7Dutch (nl)
Modaliteit (taalkunde)
284
8Chinese (zh)
情态
234
9Czech (cs)
Modalita (lingvistika)
156
10Hungarian (hu)
Modalitás (nyelvészet)
86
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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 "Modality (semantics)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Modality (semantics)
105
2German (de)
Modalität (Sprachwissenschaft)
75
3Russian (ru)
Модальность (лингвистика)
32
4Dutch (nl)
Modaliteit (taalkunde)
25
5Japanese (ja)
モダリティ
19
6Ukrainian (uk)
Модальність (мовознавство)
12
7Spanish (es)
Modalidad
11
8Serbian (sr)
Modalnost
9
9Chinese (zh)
情态
7
10Czech (cs)
Modalita (lingvistika)
6
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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 "Modality (semantics)" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1German (de)
Modalität (Sprachwissenschaft)
2
2English (en)
Modality (semantics)
1
3Dutch (nl)
Modaliteit (taalkunde)
1
4Czech (cs)
Modalita (lingvistika)
0
5Spanish (es)
Modalidad
0
6Persian (fa)
وجهیت
0
7Croatian (hr)
Modalnost
0
8Hungarian (hu)
Modalitás (nyelvészet)
0
9Japanese (ja)
モダリティ
0
10Korean (ko)
양태 (문법)
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 "Modality (semantics)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Modality (semantics)
705
2Persian (fa)
وجهیت
203
3Russian (ru)
Модальность (лингвистика)
189
4Chinese (zh)
情态
95
5Ukrainian (uk)
Модальність (мовознавство)
94
6Japanese (ja)
モダリティ
87
7German (de)
Modalität (Sprachwissenschaft)
62
8Romanian (ro)
Modalitate (lingvistică)
31
9Spanish (es)
Modalidad
28
10Hungarian (hu)
Modalitás (nyelvészet)
26
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
csCzech
Modalita (lingvistika)
deGerman
Modalität (Sprachwissenschaft)
enEnglish
Modality (semantics)
esSpanish
Modalidad
faPersian
وجهیت
hrCroatian
Modalnost
huHungarian
Modalitás (nyelvészet)
jaJapanese
モダリティ
koKorean
양태 (문법)
ltLithuanian
Modalumas (kalbotyra)
nlDutch
Modaliteit (taalkunde)
roRomanian
Modalitate (lingvistică)
ruRussian
Модальность (лингвистика)
skSlovak
Modalita (jazykoveda)
srSerbian
Modalnost
ukUkrainian
Модальність (мовознавство)
zhChinese
情态

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#119192
01.2011
Global:
#84813
01.2011

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#26412
08.2020
Global:
#41903
08.2016

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Linguistic modality from Wikipedia articles about Grammatical mood, Modal verb, Modality, Modal logic and Wikipedia article. Whereas reading the article about Linguistic modality people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Grammatical mood, Modal verb, Tense–aspect–mood, Modal logic and Epistemic modality.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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