Classical Chinese

Quality:

Classical Chinese - language of the Sino-Tibetan language family in written form (ISO 639-3: lzh) as opposed to the spoken, known as Old Chinese (ISO 639-3: och) or Middle Chinese (ISO 639-3: ltc). Article "Classical Chinese" in Simple English Wikipedia has 11.7 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024). The article contains 3 references and 1 sections.

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

Since the creation of article "Classical Chinese", its content was written by 13 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1228 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 20 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 6543 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1631 in March 2016
• Global: #6464 in January 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #109 in July 2020
• Global: #33792 in July 2020

There are 41 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 August 1, 2024 (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	German (de) Klassisches Chinesisch		56.289
2	Chinese (zh) 文言文		51.358
3	Swedish (sv) Klassisk kinesiska		44.6411
4	English (en) Classical Chinese		41.1822
5	Russian (ru) Вэньянь		32.5082
6	Greek (el) Κλασική κινεζική γλώσσα		28.1745
7	Portuguese (pt) Chinês clássico		26.2777
8	Spanish (es) Chino clásico		24.2359
9	Slovak (sk) Klasická čínština		22.6358
10	Dutch (nl) Klassiek Chinees		22.5881

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Classical Chinese		1 560 362
2	Chinese (zh) 文言文		996 935
3	Japanese (ja) 漢文		769 122
4	Russian (ru) Вэньянь		209 426
5	German (de) Klassisches Chinesisch		135 541
6	Spanish (es) Chino clásico		119 823
7	Korean (ko) 한문		104 455
8	French (fr) Chinois classique		78 867
9	Polish (pl) Klasyczny język chiński		75 370
10	Vietnamese (vi) Văn ngôn		42 375

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) Classical Chinese		9 536
2	Chinese (zh) 文言文		5 158
3	Japanese (ja) 漢文		3 475
4	Korean (ko) 한문		1 326
5	Russian (ru) Вэньянь		1 286
6	Vietnamese (vi) Văn ngôn		731
7	Spanish (es) Chino clásico		408
8	German (de) Klassisches Chinesisch		314
9	Simple English (simple) Classical Chinese		207
10	French (fr) Chinois classique		202

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Classical Chinese		334
2	Chinese (zh) 文言文		210
3	German (de) Klassisches Chinesisch		103
4	Japanese (ja) 漢文		100
5	French (fr) Chinois classique		66
6	Spanish (es) Chino clásico		42
7	Russian (ru) Вэньянь		40
8	Vietnamese (vi) Văn ngôn		37
9	Korean (ko) 한문		31
10	Norwegian (no) Wenyan		31

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	German (de) Klassisches Chinesisch		2
2	English (en) Classical Chinese		2
3	Arabic (ar) لغة صينية كلاسيكية		1
4	Persian (fa) زبان چینی کلاسیک		1
5	Galician (gl) Chinés clásico		1
6	Japanese (ja) 漢文		1
7	Korean (ko) 한문		1
8	Ukrainian (uk) Класична китайська мова		1
9	Vietnamese (vi) Văn ngôn		1
10	Azerbaijani (az) Klassik Çin dili		0

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

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