English language

Quality:

English - West Germanic language. Article “English language” in Simple English Wikipedia has 40 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 10 references and 12 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 19^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 48^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 73^rd most popular in all topics.

The 72^nd most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 515^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 2068^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 526^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 723^rd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “English language” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (2068^th place) and written by 73 authors in all languages (723^rd place).

Since the creation of article “English language”, its content was written by 269 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (48^th place) and edited by 13066 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (72^nd place).

The article is cited 4821 times in Simple English Wikipedia (68^th place) and cited 4147270 times in all languages (13^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #9 in April 2008
• Global: #18 in August 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1 in April 2023
• Global: #54 in April 2010

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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) English language		95.5311
2	Turkish (tr) İngilizce		94.2857
3	Ukrainian (uk) Англійська мова		92.8889
4	Finnish (fi) Englannin kieli		88
5	Persian (fa) زبان انگلیسی		86.1211
6	Croatian (hr) Engleski jezik		83.6698
7	Galician (gl) Lingua inglesa		83.6526
8	Indonesian (id) Bahasa Inggris		83.1722
9	Malay (ms) Bahasa Inggeris		82.2033
10	Hindi (hi) अंग्रेज़ी भाषा		76.6779

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) English language		89 159 443
2	Russian (ru) Английский язык		25 116 704
3	Spanish (es) Idioma inglés		17 805 196
4	Arabic (ar) اللغة الإنجليزية		12 281 649
5	Japanese (ja) 英語		10 429 684
6	German (de) Englische Sprache		8 642 282
7	Portuguese (pt) Língua inglesa		8 566 236
8	Persian (fa) زبان انگلیسی		6 934 966
9	Indonesian (id) Bahasa Inggris		6 585 786
10	Thai (th) ภาษาอังกฤษ		6 206 668

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) English language		257 335
2	Russian (ru) Английский язык		71 554
3	Persian (fa) زبان انگلیسی		37 513
4	Japanese (ja) 英語		33 930
5	Spanish (es) Idioma inglés		25 187
6	German (de) Englische Sprache		24 739
7	French (fr) Anglais		15 417
8	Italian (it) Lingua inglese		11 099
9	Chinese (zh) 英语		10 026
10	Vietnamese (vi) Tiếng Anh		9 860

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) English language		3 010
2	Spanish (es) Idioma inglés		720
3	French (fr) Anglais		684
4	German (de) Englische Sprache		651
5	Russian (ru) Английский язык		548
6	Italian (it) Lingua inglese		481
7	Japanese (ja) 英語		454
8	Chinese (zh) 英语		414
9	Dutch (nl) Engels		350
10	Hebrew (he) אנגלית		324

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	English (en) English language		9
2	Arabic (ar) اللغة الإنجليزية		7
3	German (de) Englische Sprache		7
4	Russian (ru) Английский язык		7
5	French (fr) Anglais		5
6	Ukrainian (uk) Англійська мова		5
7	Catalan (ca) Anglès		3
8	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Engleski jezik		3
9	Turkish (tr) İngilizce		3
10	Czech (cs) Angličtina		2

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

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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