Origin of language

Quality:

Origin of language - first formation of language. Article "Origin of language" in English Wikipedia has 67.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 272 references and 39 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

In June 2025 the article "Origin of language" was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 16 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article "Origin of language", its content was written by 693 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1604 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1346 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3274 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2522 in March 2015
• Global: #8419 in September 2015

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1914 in January 2013
• Global: #5953 in January 2013

There are 32 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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Chinese (zh) 语言的起源		87.5793
2	Basque (eu) Hizkuntzaren sorrera		86.7416
3	Spanish (es) Origen del lenguaje		86.22
4	Serbian (sr) Poreklo jezika		83.8254
5	Catalan (ca) Origen del llenguatge		76.6342
6	Korean (ko) 언어의 기원		72.3439
7	Indonesian (id) Asal-mula bahasa		71.938
8	Portuguese (pt) Origem da linguagem		71.722
9	Japanese (ja) 言語の起源		70.5614
10	Arabic (ar) أصل اللغة		69.3093

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Origin of language		6 149 480
2	Spanish (es) Origen del lenguaje		580 023
3	Japanese (ja) 言語の起源		579 452
4	Indonesian (id) Asal-mula bahasa		479 409
5	Arabic (ar) أصل اللغة		471 093
6	German (de) Sprachursprung		437 063
7	French (fr) Origine du langage		433 946
8	Hindi (hi) भाषा की उत्पत्ति		356 258
9	Portuguese (pt) Origem da linguagem		292 904
10	Italian (it) Origine del linguaggio umano		286 611

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Origin of language		18 131
2	Japanese (ja) 言語の起源		2 494
3	Portuguese (pt) Origem da linguagem		1 897
4	Spanish (es) Origen del lenguaje		1 751
5	French (fr) Origine du langage		1 164
6	Chinese (zh) 语言的起源		856
7	Italian (it) Origine del linguaggio umano		781
8	German (de) Sprachursprung		704
9	Russian (ru) Глоттогония		577
10	Arabic (ar) أصل اللغة		453

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Origin of language		693
2	French (fr) Origine du langage		118
3	German (de) Sprachursprung		87
4	Italian (it) Origine del linguaggio umano		84
5	Russian (ru) Глоттогония		64
6	Hebrew (he) אבולוציה של השפה		63
7	Japanese (ja) 言語の起源		46
8	Dutch (nl) Glottogonie		45
9	Swedish (sv) Språkets ursprung		37
10	Arabic (ar) أصل اللغة		35

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Origine du langage		5
2	Korean (ko) 언어의 기원		5
3	English (en) Origin of language		3
4	Hebrew (he) אבולוציה של השפה		1
5	Portuguese (pt) Origem da linguagem		1
6	Chinese (zh) 语言的起源		1
7	Arabic (ar) أصل اللغة		0
8	Azerbaijani (az) Dilin mənşəyi		0
9	Catalan (ca) Origen del llenguatge		0
10	German (de) Sprachursprung		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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