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Sotho language

Quality:

Sesotho - Southern Bantu language. Article "Sotho language" in English Wikipedia has 37.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 6 references and 14 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

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

Since the creation of article "Sotho language", its content was written by 183 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 914 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1542 times in English Wikipedia and cited 5922 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #764 in October 2003
  • Global: #3485 in October 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #84922 in July 2020
  • Global: #72666 in July 2020

There are 42 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
1Estonian (et)
Sotho keel
39.3494
2English (en)
Sotho language
37.6985
3Catalan (ca)
Sesotho
34.8829
4Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn)
Sotho
33.7149
5Italian (it)
Lingua sotho del sud
26.9772
6Indonesian (id)
Bahasa Sotho Selatan
26.3427
7German (de)
Sesotho
25.4653
8Swedish (sv)
Sesotho
24.9484
9Basque (eu)
Sothoera
24.9326
10Finnish (fi)
Eteläsothon kieli
24.2193
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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 "Sotho language" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Sotho language
1 558 304
2German (de)
Sesotho
132 320
3Russian (ru)
Сесото
122 423
4Spanish (es)
Sesoto
114 567
5French (fr)
Sotho du Sud
81 847
6Polish (pl)
Język sotho
81 741
7Japanese (ja)
ソト語
71 331
8Portuguese (pt)
Sesoto
69 799
9Chinese (zh)
索托語
57 546
10Italian (it)
Lingua sotho del sud
56 318
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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 "Sotho language" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Sotho language
7 357
2Russian (ru)
Сесото
749
3Spanish (es)
Sesoto
490
4Japanese (ja)
ソト語
402
5German (de)
Sesotho
349
6Chinese (zh)
索托語
334
7French (fr)
Sotho du Sud
307
8Italian (it)
Lingua sotho del sud
240
9Portuguese (pt)
Sesoto
239
10Polish (pl)
Język sotho
176
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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 "Sotho language" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Sotho language
183
2German (de)
Sesotho
66
3French (fr)
Sotho du Sud
59
4Italian (it)
Lingua sotho del sud
55
5Russian (ru)
Сесото
53
6Dutch (nl)
Zuid-Sotho
51
7Norwegian (no)
Sotho
39
8Danish (da)
Sesotho (sprog)
35
9Spanish (es)
Sesoto
29
10Japanese (ja)
ソト語
20
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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 "Sotho language" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Urdu (ur)
سوتھو زبان
2
2Min Nan (zhminnan)
Sotho-gí
1
3Arabic (ar)
اللغة السوتية
0
4Azerbaijani (az)
Soto dili
0
5Belarusian (be)
Сота (мова)
0
6Bulgarian (bg)
Сото (език)
0
7Catalan (ca)
Sesotho
0
8Czech (cs)
Sesothština
0
9Danish (da)
Sesotho (sprog)
0
10German (de)
Sesotho
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 "Sotho language" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Sotho language
1 542
2Arabic (ar)
اللغة السوتية
547
3Estonian (et)
Sotho keel
458
4Dutch (nl)
Zuid-Sotho
402
5German (de)
Sesotho
299
6Russian (ru)
Сесото
240
7French (fr)
Sotho du Sud
237
8Portuguese (pt)
Sesoto
227
9Polish (pl)
Język sotho
213
10Chinese (zh)
索托語
151
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
اللغة السوتية
azAzerbaijani
Soto dili
beBelarusian
Сота (мова)
bgBulgarian
Сото (език)
caCatalan
Sesotho
csCzech
Sesothština
daDanish
Sesotho (sprog)
deGerman
Sesotho
enEnglish
Sotho language
eoEsperanto
Sota lingvo
esSpanish
Sesoto
etEstonian
Sotho keel
euBasque
Sothoera
faPersian
زبان سوتو
fiFinnish
Eteläsothon kieli
frFrench
Sotho du Sud
glGalician
Lingua sesotho
hiHindi
सिसोथो भाषा
hrCroatian
Južni sotho jezik
idIndonesian
Bahasa Sotho Selatan
itItalian
Lingua sotho del sud
jaJapanese
ソト語
koKorean
소토어
ltLithuanian
Sesoto kalba
nlDutch
Zuid-Sotho
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Sotho
noNorwegian
Sotho
plPolish
Język sotho
ptPortuguese
Sesoto
roRomanian
Limba sotho
ruRussian
Сесото
shSerbo-Croatian
Sotho jezik
simpleSimple English
Sotho language
srSerbian
Сото (језик)
svSwedish
Sesotho
taTamil
சோத்தோ மொழி
trTurkish
Sotho dili
ukUkrainian
Сесото
urUrdu
سوتھو زبان
viVietnamese
Tiếng Sotho
zhChinese
索托語
zhminnanMin Nan
Sotho-gí

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#84922
07.2020
Global:
#72666
07.2020

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#764
10.2003
Global:
#3485
10.2003

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 Sesotho from Wikipedia articles about Lesotho, South Africa, Languages of South Africa, Free State and Sotho people. Whereas reading the article about Sesotho people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Lesotho, Sotho people, Sotho–Tswana, South Africa and Sotho orthography.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

es: Sesoto
pt: Sesoto
no: Sotho
nn: Sotho
zhminnan: Sotho-gí

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