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Official language

Quality:

Official language - language given special status in some polity. Article “Official language” in English Wikipedia has 73.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 76 references and 41 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:
Global Wikipedia:
The 6761st most popular in AI.

In June 2025 the article “Official language” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 13 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Official language”, its content was written by 610 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 3061 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6761st place).

The article is cited 1875 times in English Wikipedia and cited 101080 times in all languages (1343rd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #1688 in March 2003
  • Global: #464 in July 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #7891 in June 2010
  • Global: #2714 in April 2008

There are 54 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)
Official language
73.3389
2Estonian (et)
Ametlik keel
69.7443
3French (fr)
Langue officielle
66.0081
4Chinese (zh)
官方语言
41.8802
5Arabic (ar)
لغة رسمية
37.0499
6Czech (cs)
Úřední jazyk
36.1599
7Persian (fa)
زبان رسمی
34.2129
8Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn)
Offisielt språk
32.1737
9Norwegian (no)
Offisielt språk
28.592
10Slovak (sk)
Úradný jazyk
28.2126
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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 "Official language" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Official language
4 727 406
2Spanish (es)
Idioma oficial
2 308 574
3German (de)
Amtssprache
1 371 279
4French (fr)
Langue officielle
1 345 501
5Russian (ru)
Официальный язык
1 158 585
6Portuguese (pt)
Língua oficial
1 040 678
7Japanese (ja)
公用語
1 006 178
8Polish (pl)
Język urzędowy
810 711
9Hindi (hi)
राजभाषा
653 629
10Arabic (ar)
لغة رسمية
614 680
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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 "Official language" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Official language
16 701
2Russian (ru)
Официальный язык
6 745
3Spanish (es)
Idioma oficial
3 416
4French (fr)
Langue officielle
3 341
5German (de)
Amtssprache
2 544
6Japanese (ja)
公用語
2 410
7Hindi (hi)
राजभाषा
1 970
8Chinese (zh)
官方语言
1 849
9Persian (fa)
زبان رسمی
1 516
10Arabic (ar)
لغة رسمية
1 460
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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 "Official language" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Official language
610
2German (de)
Amtssprache
264
3French (fr)
Langue officielle
197
4Russian (ru)
Официальный язык
123
5Spanish (es)
Idioma oficial
110
6Dutch (nl)
Officiële taal
92
7Japanese (ja)
公用語
91
8Italian (it)
Lingua ufficiale
88
9Portuguese (pt)
Língua oficial
84
10Hebrew (he)
שפה רשמית
76
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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 "Official language" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Official language
2
2Spanish (es)
Idioma oficial
2
3Persian (fa)
زبان رسمی
2
4Indonesian (id)
Bahasa resmi
2
5Danish (da)
Officielt sprog
1
6French (fr)
Langue officielle
1
7Dutch (nl)
Officiële taal
1
8Russian (ru)
Официальный язык
1
9Simple English (simple)
Official language
1
10Arabic (ar)
لغة رسمية
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 "Official language" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1Spanish (es)
Idioma oficial
29 961
2Arabic (ar)
لغة رسمية
16 984
3Italian (it)
Lingua ufficiale
7 610
4Ukrainian (uk)
Офіційна мова
6 193
5Hebrew (he)
שפה רשמית
3 318
6Japanese (ja)
公用語
2 945
7German (de)
Amtssprache
2 866
8Russian (ru)
Официальный язык
2 770
9French (fr)
Langue officielle
2 377
10English (en)
Official language
1 875
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
لغة رسمية
azAzerbaijani
Dövlət dili
beBelarusian
Афіцыйная мова
bgBulgarian
Официален език
caCatalan
Llengua oficial
csCzech
Úřední jazyk
daDanish
Officielt sprog
deGerman
Amtssprache
elGreek
Επίσημη γλώσσα
enEnglish
Official language
eoEsperanto
Oficiala lingvo
esSpanish
Idioma oficial
etEstonian
Ametlik keel
euBasque
Hizkuntza ofizial
faPersian
زبان رسمی
fiFinnish
Virallinen kieli
frFrench
Langue officielle
glGalician
Lingua oficial
heHebrew
שפה רשמית
hiHindi
राजभाषा
hrCroatian
Službeni jezik
huHungarian
Hivatalos nyelv
hyArmenian
Պաշտոնական լեզու
idIndonesian
Bahasa resmi
itItalian
Lingua ufficiale
jaJapanese
公用語
kaGeorgian
სახელმწიფო ენა
kkKazakh
Ресми тіл
koKorean
공용어
laLatin
Lingua publica
ltLithuanian
Valstybinė kalba
msMalay
Bahasa rasmi
nlDutch
Officiële taal
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Offisielt språk
noNorwegian
Offisielt språk
plPolish
Język urzędowy
ptPortuguese
Língua oficial
roRomanian
Limbă oficială
ruRussian
Официальный язык
shSerbo-Croatian
Službeni jezik
simpleSimple English
Official language
skSlovak
Úradný jazyk
slSlovenian
Uradni jezik
srSerbian
Службени језик
svSwedish
Officiellt språk
taTamil
ஆட்சி மொழி
thThai
ภาษาราชการ
trTurkish
Resmî dil
ukUkrainian
Офіційна мова
urUrdu
دفتری زبان
uzUzbek
Davlat tili
viVietnamese
Ngôn ngữ chính thức
zhChinese
官方语言
zhminnanMin Nan
Koaⁿ-hong gí-giân

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#7891
06.2010
Global:
#2714
04.2008

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#1688
03.2003
Global:
#464
07.2004

Local popularity rank history

Global popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Official language from Wikipedia articles about United States, Russia, English, National language and Russian. Whereas reading the article about Official language people most often go to Wikipedia articles on List of official languages by country and territory, National language, Language, List of official languages and List of countries and territories where English is an official language.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

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In English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: Jeffrey Epstein, Wuthering Heights, Wuthering Heights (2026 film), 2026 Winter Olympics, Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, Ice hockey at the 2026 Winter Olympics – Men's tournament, Epstein files, John F. Kennedy Jr., Anthony Kim, James Van Der Beek.

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