Variation (linguistics)

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Variation (linguistics)

Quality:

Variation - concept in linguistics, more than one way of saying the same thing. Article “Variation (linguistics)” in English Wikipedia has 42.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 46 references and 10 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.71 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Variation (linguistics)”, its content was written by 48 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 279 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 109 times in English Wikipedia and cited 557 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #35958 in March 2019
  • Global: #11368 in April 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #160629 in November 2016
  • Global: #22194 in April 2013

There are 11 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)
Variation (linguistics)
42.4118
2Latin (la)
Variatio (linguistica)
28.9599
3Malay (ms)
Variasi (linguistik)
28.6259
4Polish (pl)
Wariacja (językoznawstwo)
25.1886
5Arabic (ar)
تنوع (لغة)
22.8561
6Catalan (ca)
Variació lingüística
22.07
7German (de)
Variation (Linguistik)
21.3981
8Persian (fa)
گوناگونی (زبان‌شناسی)
17.3099
9Portuguese (pt)
Variação linguística
12.2457
10French (fr)
Variation linguistique
10.781
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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 "Variation (linguistics)" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1Portuguese (pt)
Variação linguística
3 541 596
2Spanish (es)
Variación lingüística
1 218 983
3English (en)
Variation (linguistics)
636 153
4Catalan (ca)
Variació lingüística
109 514
5German (de)
Variation (Linguistik)
76 320
6French (fr)
Variation linguistique
67 942
7Arabic (ar)
تنوع (لغة)
8 815
8Polish (pl)
Wariacja (językoznawstwo)
7 776
9Persian (fa)
گوناگونی (زبان‌شناسی)
1 308
10Latin (la)
Variatio (linguistica)
587
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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 "Variation (linguistics)" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Variation (linguistics)
2 063
2Portuguese (pt)
Variação linguística
1 299
3Spanish (es)
Variación lingüística
646
4French (fr)
Variation linguistique
223
5German (de)
Variation (Linguistik)
125
6Catalan (ca)
Variació lingüística
124
7Polish (pl)
Wariacja (językoznawstwo)
100
8Malay (ms)
Variasi (linguistik)
43
9Arabic (ar)
تنوع (لغة)
25
10Latin (la)
Variatio (linguistica)
14
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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 "Variation (linguistics)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Portuguese (pt)
Variação linguística
96
2Spanish (es)
Variación lingüística
50
3English (en)
Variation (linguistics)
48
4Catalan (ca)
Variació lingüística
25
5German (de)
Variation (Linguistik)
19
6French (fr)
Variation linguistique
15
7Polish (pl)
Wariacja (językoznawstwo)
12
8Arabic (ar)
تنوع (لغة)
7
9Persian (fa)
گوناگونی (زبان‌شناسی)
3
10Latin (la)
Variatio (linguistica)
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 "Variation (linguistics)" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Polish (pl)
Wariacja (językoznawstwo)
1
2Arabic (ar)
تنوع (لغة)
0
3Catalan (ca)
Variació lingüística
0
4German (de)
Variation (Linguistik)
0
5English (en)
Variation (linguistics)
0
6Spanish (es)
Variación lingüística
0
7Persian (fa)
گوناگونی (زبان‌شناسی)
0
8French (fr)
Variation linguistique
0
9Latin (la)
Variatio (linguistica)
0
10Malay (ms)
Variasi (linguistik)
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 "Variation (linguistics)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1Portuguese (pt)
Variação linguística
201
2English (en)
Variation (linguistics)
109
3Catalan (ca)
Variació lingüística
72
4Spanish (es)
Variación lingüística
39
5Polish (pl)
Wariacja (językoznawstwo)
39
6German (de)
Variation (Linguistik)
38
7Persian (fa)
گوناگونی (زبان‌شناسی)
22
8French (fr)
Variation linguistique
21
9Arabic (ar)
تنوع (لغة)
8
10Latin (la)
Variatio (linguistica)
6
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
تنوع (لغة)
caCatalan
Variació lingüística
deGerman
Variation (Linguistik)
enEnglish
Variation (linguistics)
esSpanish
Variación lingüística
faPersian
گوناگونی (زبان‌شناسی)
frFrench
Variation linguistique
laLatin
Variatio (linguistica)
msMalay
Variasi (linguistik)
plPolish
Wariacja (językoznawstwo)
ptPortuguese
Variação linguística

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#160629
11.2016
Global:
#22194
04.2013

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#35958
03.2019
Global:
#11368
04.2016

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Variation from Wikipedia articles about Brazilian Portuguese, Language change, Codification, Sociolinguistics and Register. Whereas reading the article about Variation people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Phoneme, Lexicon, History, Language change and Language variety.

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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