Griot

Griot - storyteller of oral tradition in West Africa. Article “Griot” in Simple English Wikipedia has 38.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 15 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 “Griot”, its content was written by 9 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 842 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 4 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2155 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #74 in February 2023
• Global: #10558 in September 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #7237 in February 2023
• Global: #33276 in January 2026

There are 26 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) Griot		81.8124
2	Spanish (es) Griot		60.0504
3	Catalan (ca) Griot		41.8542
4	Hebrew (he) גריוט		40.929
5	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Griot		38.6405
6	Simple English (simple) Griot		38.6234
7	French (fr) Griot		33.1332
8	Malay (ms) Griot		32.5261
9	German (de) Griot		25.4895
10	Turkish (tr) Griot		24.097

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Griot		2 602 550
2	French (fr) Griot		1 169 331
3	Portuguese (pt) Griô		330 158
4	German (de) Griot		238 536
5	Spanish (es) Griot		209 505
6	Italian (it) Griot		167 068
7	Japanese (ja) グリオ		133 937
8	Dutch (nl) Griot		60 207
9	Russian (ru) Гриот		48 334
10	Polish (pl) Griot		36 945

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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 "Griot" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Griot		8 927
2	French (fr) Griot		6 023
3	German (de) Griot		952
4	Portuguese (pt) Griô		879
5	Spanish (es) Griot		465
6	Italian (it) Griot		433
7	Dutch (nl) Griot		411
8	Japanese (ja) グリオ		343
9	Russian (ru) Гриот		286
10	Polish (pl) Griot		122

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Griot		304
2	French (fr) Griot		145
3	German (de) Griot		73
4	Italian (it) Griot		62
5	Dutch (nl) Griot		33
6	Portuguese (pt) Griô		32
7	Spanish (es) Griot		23
8	Japanese (ja) グリオ		19
9	Turkish (tr) Griot		18
10	Hebrew (he) גריוט		17

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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 "Griot" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) جريوت		1
2	Catalan (ca) Griot		1
3	Bulgarian (bg) Гриот		0
4	Czech (cs) Griot		0
5	German (de) Griot		0
6	English (en) Griot		0
7	Spanish (es) Griot		0
8	Basque (eu) Griot		0
9	Finnish (fi) Griootti		0
10	French (fr) Griot		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 "Griot" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Griot		870
2	French (fr) Griot		378
3	German (de) Griot		158
4	Spanish (es) Griot		126
5	Portuguese (pt) Griô		85
6	Italian (it) Griot		74
7	Russian (ru) Гриот		71
8	Japanese (ja) グリオ		55
9	Dutch (nl) Griot		52
10	Finnish (fi) Griootti		46

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic جريوت
bg	Bulgarian Гриот
ca	Catalan Griot
cs	Czech Griot
de	German Griot
en	English Griot
es	Spanish Griot
eu	Basque Griot
fi	Finnish Griootti
fr	French Griot
gl	Galician Griot
he	Hebrew גריוט
it	Italian Griot
ja	Japanese グリオ
ms	Malay Griot
nl	Dutch Griot
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Griot
no	Norwegian Griot
pl	Polish Griot
pt	Portuguese Griô
ru	Russian Гриот
simple	Simple English Griot
sv	Swedish Griot
tr	Turkish Griot
uk	Ukrainian Гріот
zh	Chinese 格里奧

Best Rank

Simple English: #7237 02.2023

Global: #33276 01.2026

Best Rank

Simple English: #74 02.2023

Global: #10558 09.2008

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