Tumbuka (folk)

Tumbuka people - southern African ethnic group of northern Malawi and nearby regions. Article “Tumbuka (folk)” in Norwegian Wikipedia has 3.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 0 references and 2 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.18 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Tumbuka (folk)”, its content was written by 6 registered users of Norwegian Wikipedia and edited by 158 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian): #5398 in August 2020
• Global: #99820 in February 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian): #146688 in August 2020
• Global: #520429 in November 2016

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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Tumbuka people		80.0514
2	Spanish (es) Pueblo tumbuka		46.399
3	Russian (ru) Тумбука (народ)		28.968
4	Italian (it) Tumbuka		26.2959
5	French (fr) Tumbuka (peuple)		18.5517
6	Polish (pl) Tumbuka		10.9543
7	Belarusian (be) Тумбука		7.8411
8	German (de) Tumbuka (Ethnie)		3.7852
9	Norwegian (no) Tumbuka (folk)		3.4044
10	Esperanto (eo) Tumbukaoj		2.6862

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Tumbuka (folk)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Tumbuka people		201 800
2	German (de) Tumbuka (Ethnie)		13 065
3	Japanese (ja) トゥンブカ族		11 296
4	French (fr) Tumbuka (peuple)		5 024
5	Polish (pl) Tumbuka		2 941
6	Esperanto (eo) Tumbukaoj		2 137
7	Spanish (es) Pueblo tumbuka		2 045
8	Russian (ru) Тумбука (народ)		890
9	Norwegian (no) Tumbuka (folk)		150
10	Italian (it) Tumbuka		141

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Tumbuka (folk)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Tumbuka people		2 951
2	Japanese (ja) トゥンブカ族		77
3	German (de) Tumbuka (Ethnie)		36
4	Spanish (es) Pueblo tumbuka		30
5	Polish (pl) Tumbuka		29
6	French (fr) Tumbuka (peuple)		26
7	Russian (ru) Тумбука (народ)		26
8	Italian (it) Tumbuka		25
9	Esperanto (eo) Tumbukaoj		7
10	Belarusian (be) Тумбука		6

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

Language versions of the article "Tumbuka (folk)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Tumbuka people		98
2	German (de) Tumbuka (Ethnie)		18
3	Esperanto (eo) Tumbukaoj		8
4	French (fr) Tumbuka (peuple)		8
5	Spanish (es) Pueblo tumbuka		7
6	Norwegian (no) Tumbuka (folk)		6
7	Japanese (ja) トゥンブカ族		5
8	Italian (it) Tumbuka		3
9	Belarusian (be) Тумбука		2
10	Polish (pl) Tumbuka		2

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

Language versions of the article "Tumbuka (folk)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Tumbuka people		3
2	Belarusian (be) Тумбука		0
3	German (de) Tumbuka (Ethnie)		0
4	Esperanto (eo) Tumbukaoj		0
5	Spanish (es) Pueblo tumbuka		0
6	French (fr) Tumbuka (peuple)		0
7	Italian (it) Tumbuka		0
8	Japanese (ja) トゥンブカ族		0
9	Norwegian (no) Tumbuka (folk)		0
10	Polish (pl) Tumbuka		0

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

Language versions of the article "Tumbuka (folk)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Tumbuka people		338
2	Esperanto (eo) Tumbukaoj		133
3	German (de) Tumbuka (Ethnie)		34
4	French (fr) Tumbuka (peuple)		20
5	Japanese (ja) トゥンブカ族		18
6	Spanish (es) Pueblo tumbuka		17
7	Italian (it) Tumbuka		8
8	Russian (ru) Тумбука (народ)		8
9	Polish (pl) Tumbuka		6
10	Belarusian (be) Тумбука		5

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#	Language	Value
be	Belarusian Тумбука
de	German Tumbuka (Ethnie)
en	English Tumbuka people
eo	Esperanto Tumbukaoj
es	Spanish Pueblo tumbuka
fr	French Tumbuka (peuple)
it	Italian Tumbuka
ja	Japanese トゥンブカ族
no	Norwegian Tumbuka (folk)
pl	Polish Tumbuka
ru	Russian Тумбука (народ)

Best Rank

Norwegian: #146688 08.2020

Global: #520429 11.2016

Best Rank

Norwegian: #5398 08.2020

Global: #99820 02.2004

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