Bantu languages

Quality:

Bantu - large language family spoken in Sub-Saharan Africa. Article “Bantu languages” in Simple English Wikipedia has 17 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 references and 4 sections.

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

In June 2026 the article “Bantu languages” was edited by 2 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (1006^th place) and written by 13 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Bantu languages”, its content was written by 10 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1667 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 62 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 9974 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1006 in June 2026
• Global: #398 in September 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3732 in April 2023
• Global: #36377 in June 2010

There are 50 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, 2026 (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) Bantu languages		65.9287
2	German (de) Bantusprachen		50.7618
3	Chinese (zh) 班图语支		47.5
4	Japanese (ja) バントゥー語群		46.1142
5	Swedish (sv) Bantuspråk		41.5105
6	Polish (pl) Języki bantu		40.6862
7	Georgian (ka) ბანტუს ენები		36.7555
8	Persian (fa) زبان‌های بانتو		32.9408
9	Italian (it) Lingue bantu		31.3315
10	Russian (ru) Банту (языки)		31.2717

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Bantu languages		4 306 262
2	French (fr) Langues bantoues		537 864
3	German (de) Bantusprachen		515 485
4	Portuguese (pt) Línguas bantas		395 741
5	Spanish (es) Lenguas bantúes		362 032
6	Russian (ru) Банту (языки)		335 137
7	Italian (it) Lingue bantu		192 716
8	Japanese (ja) バントゥー語群		190 166
9	Polish (pl) Języki bantu		189 660
10	Swedish (sv) Bantuspråk		140 599

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) Bantu languages		17 901
2	French (fr) Langues bantoues		2 014
3	German (de) Bantusprachen		1 914
4	Russian (ru) Банту (языки)		1 726
5	Spanish (es) Lenguas bantúes		1 166
6	Japanese (ja) バントゥー語群		1 129
7	Portuguese (pt) Línguas bantas		893
8	Chinese (zh) 班图语支		806
9	Italian (it) Lingue bantu		788
10	Polish (pl) Języki bantu		698

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Bantu languages		460
2	German (de) Bantusprachen		181
3	French (fr) Langues bantoues		138
4	Russian (ru) Банту (языки)		89
5	Dutch (nl) Bantoetalen		65
6	Italian (it) Lingue bantu		61
7	Portuguese (pt) Línguas bantas		44
8	Spanish (es) Lenguas bantúes		43
9	Polish (pl) Języki bantu		41
10	Swedish (sv) Bantuspråk		39

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	Arabic (ar) لغات البنتو		2
2	Esperanto (eo) Bantua lingvaro		2
3	Simple English (simple) Bantu languages		2
4	English (en) Bantu languages		1
5	French (fr) Langues bantoues		1
6	Japanese (ja) バントゥー語群		1
7	Georgian (ka) ბანტუს ენები		1
8	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Bantu jezici		1
9	Turkish (tr) Bantu dilleri		1
10	Urdu (ur) بانتو زبانیں		1

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

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