Evolutionary linguistics

Evolutionary linguistics - sociobiological approaches to linguistics. Article “Evolutionary linguistics” in Simple English Wikipedia has 15.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 1 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Evolutionary linguistics”, its content was written by 3 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 228 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 9 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1412 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #3764 in April 2024
• Global: #398 in March 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #45833 in May 2025
• Global: #334600 in November 2014

There are 16 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) Evolutionary linguistics		66.8176
2	Armenian (hy) Էվոլյուցիոն լեզվաբանություն		44.8025
3	Latin (la) Linguistica evolutionaria		41.0359
4	Azerbaijani (az) Təkamül linqvistikası		39.8403
5	Indonesian (id) Linguistik evolusioner		29.0568
6	Chinese (zh) 演化語言學		28.8409
7	Persian (fa) زبان‌شناسی فرگشتی		24.5671
8	Japanese (ja) 進化言語学		23.2472
9	Arabic (ar) لسانيات تطورية		18.0267
10	Simple English (simple) Evolutionary linguistics		15.6018

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Evolutionary linguistics" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Evolutionary linguistics		504 244
2	Russian (ru) Эволюционная лингвистика		78 900
3	Arabic (ar) لسانيات تطورية		17 585
4	Chinese (zh) 演化語言學		9 205
5	Dutch (nl) Evolutionaire taalwetenschap		8 676
6	Japanese (ja) 進化言語学		5 062
7	Urdu (ur) ارتقائی لسانیات		3 650
8	Latin (la) Linguistica evolutionaria		2 381
9	Greek (el) Εξελικτική γλωσσολογία		2 205
10	Persian (fa) زبان‌شناسی فرگشتی		1 257

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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 "Evolutionary linguistics" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Evolutionary linguistics		1 775
2	Russian (ru) Эволюционная лингвистика		198
3	Chinese (zh) 演化語言學		136
4	Japanese (ja) 進化言語学		134
5	Simple English (simple) Evolutionary linguistics		129
6	Arabic (ar) لسانيات تطورية		44
7	Dutch (nl) Evolutionaire taalwetenschap		25
8	Azerbaijani (az) Təkamül linqvistikası		19
9	Persian (fa) زبان‌شناسی فرگشتی		18
10	Indonesian (id) Linguistik evolusioner		16

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Evolutionary linguistics		153
2	Russian (ru) Эволюционная лингвистика		20
3	Arabic (ar) لسانيات تطورية		12
4	Dutch (nl) Evolutionaire taalwetenschap		7
5	Latin (la) Linguistica evolutionaria		6
6	Chinese (zh) 演化語言學		6
7	Greek (el) Εξελικτική γλωσσολογία		4
8	Azerbaijani (az) Təkamül linqvistikası		3
9	Persian (fa) زبان‌شناسی فرگشتی		3
10	Simple English (simple) Evolutionary linguistics		3

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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 "Evolutionary linguistics" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Armenian (hy) Էվոլյուցիոն լեզվաբանություն		2
2	English (en) Evolutionary linguistics		1
3	Arabic (ar) لسانيات تطورية		0
4	Azerbaijani (az) Təkamül linqvistikası		0
5	Greek (el) Εξελικτική γλωσσολογία		0
6	Estonian (et) Evolutsiooniline lingvistika		0
7	Persian (fa) زبان‌شناسی فرگشتی		0
8	Indonesian (id) Linguistik evolusioner		0
9	Japanese (ja) 進化言語学		0
10	Korean (ko) 진화언어학		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 "Evolutionary linguistics" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Evolutionary linguistics		502
2	Arabic (ar) لسانيات تطورية		274
3	Japanese (ja) 進化言語学		159
4	Persian (fa) زبان‌شناسی فرگشتی		137
5	Chinese (zh) 演化語言學		86
6	Russian (ru) Эволюционная лингвистика		71
7	Azerbaijani (az) Təkamül linqvistikası		44
8	Greek (el) Εξελικτική γλωσσολογία		34
9	Korean (ko) 진화언어학		31
10	Indonesian (id) Linguistik evolusioner		24

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic لسانيات تطورية
az	Azerbaijani Təkamül linqvistikası
el	Greek Εξελικτική γλωσσολογία
en	English Evolutionary linguistics
et	Estonian Evolutsiooniline lingvistika
fa	Persian زبان‌شناسی فرگشتی
hy	Armenian Էվոլյուցիոն լեզվաբանություն
id	Indonesian Linguistik evolusioner
ja	Japanese 進化言語学
ko	Korean 진화언어학
la	Latin Linguistica evolutionaria
nl	Dutch Evolutionaire taalwetenschap
ru	Russian Эволюционная лингвистика
simple	Simple English Evolutionary linguistics
ur	Urdu ارتقائی لسانیات
zh	Chinese 演化語言學

Best Rank

Simple English: #45833 05.2025

Global: #334600 11.2014

Best Rank

Simple English: #3764 04.2024

Global: #398 03.2001

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