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Quality:

Chinese - language group of the Sinitic languages. Article “Chinese language” in Simple English Wikipedia has 34.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 7 references and 6 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:
Simple English Wikipedia:
The 905th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.
The 1069th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.
Global Wikipedia:
The 2887th most popular in all topics.
The 816th most popular in AI.
Achievements in the last month:
Simple English Wikipedia:
The 2394th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.
Global Wikipedia:
The 7486th most popular in all topics in the last month.
The 4004th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Chinese language”, its content was written by 81 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (1069th place) and edited by 6949 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (816th place).

The article is cited 1017 times in Simple English Wikipedia (525th place) and cited 256712 times in all languages (427th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #12 in December 2003
  • Global: #65 in September 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #81 in July 2020
  • Global: #1098 in August 2008

There are 55 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Malay (ms)
Bahasa Cina
100
2English (en)
Chinese language
85.9001
3Russian (ru)
Китайский язык
84.3951
4German (de)
Chinesische Sprachen
69.8939
5Basque (eu)
Txinera
63.9141
6Chinese (zh)
汉语
63.2931
7Esperanto (eo)
Ĉina lingvaro
62.2097
8Hungarian (hu)
Kínai nyelv
59.1235
9Portuguese (pt)
Língua chinesa
54.213
10Greek (el)
Κινεζική γλώσσα
53.6169
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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 "Chinese language" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Chinese language
23 941 145
2Chinese (zh)
汉语
3 761 255
3Russian (ru)
Китайский язык
3 674 554
4Japanese (ja)
中国語
3 614 610
5Spanish (es)
Idioma chino
3 465 056
6Vietnamese (vi)
Tiếng Trung Quốc
2 237 818
7German (de)
Chinesische Sprachen
1 687 325
8Arabic (ar)
اللغة الصينية
1 447 516
9French (fr)
Langues chinoises
1 338 748
10Portuguese (pt)
Língua chinesa
1 205 934
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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 2026

The most popular language versions of the article "Chinese language" in June 2026
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Chinese language
53 521
2Chinese (zh)
汉语
10 359
3Russian (ru)
Китайский язык
9 955
4Vietnamese (vi)
Tiếng Trung Quốc
8 372
5Japanese (ja)
中国語
8 215
6Spanish (es)
Idioma chino
3 732
7German (de)
Chinesische Sprachen
3 248
8French (fr)
Langues chinoises
3 245
9Persian (fa)
زبان چینی
2 066
10Polish (pl)
Język chiński
2 019
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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 "Chinese language" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Chinese language
1 916
2Chinese (zh)
汉语
640
3German (de)
Chinesische Sprachen
360
4Spanish (es)
Idioma chino
287
5French (fr)
Langues chinoises
282
6Russian (ru)
Китайский язык
257
7Japanese (ja)
中国語
243
8Italian (it)
Lingua cinese
238
9Dutch (nl)
Chinese talen
185
10Vietnamese (vi)
Tiếng Trung Quốc
141
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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 2026

Language versions of the article "Chinese language" with the highest AI in June 2026
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Chinese language
13
2Chinese (zh)
汉语
5
3Arabic (ar)
اللغة الصينية
2
4Malay (ms)
Bahasa Cina
2
5Russian (ru)
Китайский язык
2
6Serbian (sr)
Кинески језик
2
7Vietnamese (vi)
Tiếng Trung Quốc
2
8Greek (el)
Κινεζική γλώσσα
1
9Esperanto (eo)
Ĉina lingvaro
1
10Basque (eu)
Txinera
1
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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 "Chinese language" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Chinese language
43 514
2Swedish (sv)
Kinesiska
20 709
3Russian (ru)
Китайский язык
19 559
4Korean (ko)
중국어
17 042
5Japanese (ja)
中国語
13 413
6Chinese (zh)
汉语
12 346
7French (fr)
Langues chinoises
10 012
8Spanish (es)
Idioma chino
8 834
9Ukrainian (uk)
Китайська мова
8 236
10Indonesian (id)
Bahasa Tionghoa
7 879
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
Simple English:
Global:
Popularity in June 2026:
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Popularity in all years:
Simple English:
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Registered authors in all years:
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Global:
Citations:
Simple English:
Global:

Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
اللغة الصينية
azAzerbaijani
Çin dili
beBelarusian
Кітайская мова
bgBulgarian
Китайски език
caCatalan
Llengües sinítiques
csCzech
Čínština
daDanish
Kinesisk (sproggruppe)
deGerman
Chinesische Sprachen
elGreek
Κινεζική γλώσσα
enEnglish
Chinese language
eoEsperanto
Ĉina lingvaro
esSpanish
Idioma chino
etEstonian
Hiina keel
euBasque
Txinera
faPersian
زبان چینی
fiFinnish
Kiinan kieli
frFrench
Langues chinoises
glGalician
Lingua chinesa
heHebrew
שפות סיניות
hiHindi
चीनी भाषा
hrCroatian
Kineski jezik
huHungarian
Kínai nyelv
hyArmenian
Չինարեն
idIndonesian
Bahasa Tionghoa
itItalian
Lingua cinese
jaJapanese
中国語
kaGeorgian
ჩინური ენა
kkKazakh
Қытай тілі
koKorean
중국어
laLatin
Linguae Sinicae
ltLithuanian
Kinų kalba
msMalay
Bahasa Cina
nlDutch
Chinese talen
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Kinesisk
noNorwegian
Kinesisk
plPolish
Język chiński
ptPortuguese
Língua chinesa
roRomanian
Limba chineză
ruRussian
Китайский язык
shSerbo-Croatian
Kineski jezik
simpleSimple English
Chinese language
skSlovak
Čínština
slSlovenian
Kitajščina
srSerbian
Кинески језик
svSwedish
Kinesiska
taTamil
சீன மொழி
thThai
ภาษาจีน
trTurkish
Çince
ukUkrainian
Китайська мова
urUrdu
چینی زبان
uzUzbek
Xitoy tili
viVietnamese
Tiếng Trung Quốc
voVolapük
Tsyin
zhChinese
汉语
zhminnanMin Nan
Hàn-gí

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#81
07.2020
Global:
#1098
08.2008

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#12
12.2003
Global:
#65
09.2002

Local popularity rank history

Global popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2025 – June 2026)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Chinese from Wikipedia articles about Mandarin, Peoples Republic of China, Simplified Chinese characters, Sinitic and Manchukuo. Whereas reading the article about Chinese people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Mandarin, Peoples Republic of China, Sino-Tibetan, Standard Chinese and Sinitic.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

zh: 汉语
tr: Çince
zhminnan: Hàn-gí
vo: Tsyin

News from 1 July 2026

On 1 July 2026 in multilingual Wikipedia, Internet users most often read articles on the following topics: 2026 FIFA World Cup, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Democratic Republic of the Congo, FIFA World Cup, Harry Kane, Romelu Lukaku, Senegal, Michael Olise, Sadio Mané.

In Simple English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: List of European countries, Black, List of sex positions, 2026 Iran war, Suresh Raina, Politics of Germany, Academy Award for Best Director, 2020, DYSS-TV, 2022.

About WikiRank

The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information