Formal language

Quality:

Formal language - set of strings of symbols that may be constrained by rules that are specific to it; words whose letters are taken from an alphabet and are well-formed according to a specific set of rules. Article “Formal language” in Simple English Wikipedia has 19.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 6 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 “Formal language”, its content was written by 17 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1341 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 48 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 6584 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #640 in December 2019
• Global: #580 in July 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #2207 in November 2009
• Global: #20086 in May 2011

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 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) Formal language		39.084
2	Thai (th) ภาษารูปนัย		29.316
3	Persian (fa) نظریه زبان‌ها		25.429
4	German (de) Formale Sprache		24.2906
5	French (fr) Langage formel		24.2643
6	Chinese (zh) 形式语言		23.8052
7	Uzbek (uz) Rasmiy til		21.0614
8	Polish (pl) Język formalny		21.0265
9	Portuguese (pt) Linguagem formal		20.8409
10	Esperanto (eo) Formala lingvo		20.8353

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Formal language		3 529 153
2	Spanish (es) Lenguaje formal		1 972 557
3	Portuguese (pt) Linguagem formal		778 261
4	German (de) Formale Sprache		731 616
5	Russian (ru) Формальный язык		540 119
6	French (fr) Langage formel		402 435
7	Japanese (ja) 形式言語		231 029
8	Polish (pl) Język formalny		182 933
9	Italian (it) Linguaggio formale		176 563
10	Chinese (zh) 形式语言		136 278

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) Formal language		7 627
2	German (de) Formale Sprache		987
3	Russian (ru) Формальный язык		818
4	Spanish (es) Lenguaje formal		790
5	French (fr) Langage formel		665
6	Japanese (ja) 形式言語		628
7	Chinese (zh) 形式语言		346
8	Polish (pl) Język formalny		203
9	Italian (it) Linguaggio formale		186
10	Portuguese (pt) Linguagem formal		180

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Formal language		255
2	German (de) Formale Sprache		143
3	French (fr) Langage formel		118
4	Spanish (es) Lenguaje formal		84
5	Russian (ru) Формальный язык		58
6	Italian (it) Linguaggio formale		56
7	Portuguese (pt) Linguagem formal		53
8	Japanese (ja) 形式言語		44
9	Polish (pl) Język formalny		42
10	Hebrew (he) שפה פורמלית		41

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) Formal language		2
2	Arabic (ar) لغة متصرفة		1
3	French (fr) Langage formel		1
4	Japanese (ja) 形式言語		1
5	Serbian (sr) Формални језик		1
6	Thai (th) ภาษารูปนัย		1
7	Azerbaijani (az) Formal dillər		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Формален език		0
9	Catalan (ca) Llenguatge formal		0
10	Czech (cs) Formální jazyk		0

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

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