The Language Instinct

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The Language Instinct

Quality:

The Language Instinct - 1994 written work by Steven Pinker. This book is the 6922nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “The Language Instinct” in English Wikipedia has 13.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 4 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.54 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:
Global Wikipedia:
The 6922nd most popular in books.

Since the creation of article “The Language Instinct”, its content was written by 93 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 166 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Language Instinct is on the 6922nd place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 69 times in English Wikipedia and cited 156 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #17645 in December 2003
  • Global: #36571 in December 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #67548 in July 2009
  • Global: #110467 in July 2009

There are 14 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
1Esperanto (eo)
The Language Instinct
20.0345
2English (en)
The Language Instinct
13.8732
3Hebrew (he)
אינסטינקט השפה
12.6981
4Portuguese (pt)
O Instinto da Linguagem
10.4321
5Spanish (es)
El instinto del lenguaje
8.6612
6Russian (ru)
Язык как инстинкт
8.0784
7French (fr)
L'Instinct du langage
7.7351
8Arabic (ar)
الغريزة اللغوية
7.3572
9Hungarian (hu)
A nyelvi ösztön
6.989
10Estonian (et)
The Language Instinct
3.8861
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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 "The Language Instinct" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
The Language Instinct
630 589
2Russian (ru)
Язык как инстинкт
54 033
3Chinese (zh)
語言本能
16 899
4Spanish (es)
El instinto del lenguaje
14 348
5Korean (ko)
언어 본능
12 688
6Hungarian (hu)
A nyelvi ösztön
10 401
7French (fr)
L'Instinct du langage
10 072
8Arabic (ar)
الغريزة اللغوية
3 769
9Estonian (et)
The Language Instinct
3 547
10Portuguese (pt)
O Instinto da Linguagem
1 105
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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 "The Language Instinct" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
The Language Instinct
2 630
2Spanish (es)
El instinto del lenguaje
173
3Russian (ru)
Язык как инстинкт
161
4Chinese (zh)
語言本能
100
5Korean (ko)
언어 본능
55
6Hungarian (hu)
A nyelvi ösztön
54
7French (fr)
L'Instinct du langage
47
8Portuguese (pt)
O Instinto da Linguagem
35
9Arabic (ar)
الغريزة اللغوية
22
10Persian (fa)
غریزه زبان
15
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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 "The Language Instinct" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
The Language Instinct
93
2Hungarian (hu)
A nyelvi ösztön
17
3Russian (ru)
Язык как инстинкт
12
4French (fr)
L'Instinct du langage
8
5Korean (ko)
언어 본능
8
6Hebrew (he)
אינסטינקט השפה
7
7Chinese (zh)
語言本能
6
8Catalan (ca)
L'instint del llenguatge
3
9Spanish (es)
El instinto del lenguaje
3
10Estonian (et)
The Language Instinct
3
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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 "The Language Instinct" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Esperanto (eo)
The Language Instinct
1
2Hebrew (he)
אינסטינקט השפה
1
3Arabic (ar)
الغريزة اللغوية
0
4Catalan (ca)
L'instint del llenguatge
0
5English (en)
The Language Instinct
0
6Spanish (es)
El instinto del lenguaje
0
7Estonian (et)
The Language Instinct
0
8Persian (fa)
غریزه زبان
0
9French (fr)
L'Instinct du langage
0
10Hungarian (hu)
A nyelvi ösztön
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 "The Language Instinct" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
The Language Instinct
69
2Chinese (zh)
語言本能
13
3Russian (ru)
Язык как инстинкт
9
4Catalan (ca)
L'instint del llenguatge
8
5Esperanto (eo)
The Language Instinct
8
6French (fr)
L'Instinct du langage
8
7Spanish (es)
El instinto del lenguaje
6
8Persian (fa)
غریزه زبان
6
9Hebrew (he)
אינסטינקט השפה
6
10Hungarian (hu)
A nyelvi ösztön
6
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
الغريزة اللغوية
caCatalan
L'instint del llenguatge
enEnglish
The Language Instinct
eoEsperanto
The Language Instinct
esSpanish
El instinto del lenguaje
etEstonian
The Language Instinct
faPersian
غریزه زبان
frFrench
L'Instinct du langage
heHebrew
אינסטינקט השפה
huHungarian
A nyelvi ösztön
koKorean
언어 본능
ptPortuguese
O Instinto da Linguagem
ruRussian
Язык как инстинкт
zhChinese
語言本能

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#67548
07.2009
Global:
#110467
07.2009

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#17645
12.2003
Global:
#36571
12.2003

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on The Language Instinct from Wikipedia articles about Steven Pinker, Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, Moravecs paradox, Natural language and Temporoparietal junction. Whereas reading the article about The Language Instinct people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Steven Pinker, Universal grammar, Noam Chomsky, Sapir-Whorf hypothesis and Why Freud Was Wrong.

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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