History of the alphabet

Quality:

History of the alphabet - aspect of history. Article “History of the alphabet” in Simple English Wikipedia has 30.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 3 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 “History of the alphabet”, its content was written by 6 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 868 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 6 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 976 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #702 in December 2009
• Global: #2604 in December 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #8265 in January 2010
• Global: #18529 in September 2014

There are 25 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) History of the alphabet		73.2336
2	Catalan (ca) Història de l'alfabet		49.2693
3	Chinese (zh) 字母的歷史		48.7868
4	German (de) Geschichte des Alphabets		46.8745
5	Spanish (es) Historia del alfabeto		44.4303
6	French (fr) Histoire de l'alphabet		41.987
7	Galician (gl) Historia do alfabeto		41.5602
8	Esperanto (eo) Historio de la alfabeto		36.065
9	Arabic (ar) تاريخ الأبجدية		34.966
10	Simple English (simple) History of the alphabet		30.4465

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) History of the alphabet		2 538 939
2	Spanish (es) Historia del alfabeto		1 453 282
3	Portuguese (pt) História do alfabeto		469 668
4	Russian (ru) История алфавита		319 278
5	French (fr) Histoire de l'alphabet		258 294
6	Italian (it) Storia dell'alfabeto		252 191
7	German (de) Geschichte des Alphabets		217 079
8	Indonesian (id) Sejarah huruf		183 989
9	Arabic (ar) تاريخ الأبجدية		156 884
10	Chinese (zh) 字母的歷史		141 299

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) History of the alphabet		9 169
2	Spanish (es) Historia del alfabeto		1 837
3	French (fr) Histoire de l'alphabet		1 484
4	Russian (ru) История алфавита		1 116
5	Chinese (zh) 字母的歷史		807
6	German (de) Geschichte des Alphabets		709
7	Portuguese (pt) História do alfabeto		635
8	Italian (it) Storia dell'alfabeto		469
9	Japanese (ja) 音素文字の歴史		385
10	Arabic (ar) تاريخ الأبجدية		297

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) History of the alphabet		327
2	German (de) Geschichte des Alphabets		71
3	Spanish (es) Historia del alfabeto		69
4	Italian (it) Storia dell'alfabeto		69
5	French (fr) Histoire de l'alphabet		38
6	Chinese (zh) 字母的歷史		36
7	Arabic (ar) تاريخ الأبجدية		31
8	Catalan (ca) Història de l'alfabet		28
9	Portuguese (pt) História do alfabeto		28
10	Russian (ru) История алфавита		27

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) History of the alphabet		1
2	French (fr) Histoire de l'alphabet		1
3	Italian (it) Storia dell'alfabeto		1
4	Arabic (ar) تاريخ الأبجدية		0
5	Catalan (ca) Història de l'alfabet		0
6	Danish (da) Alfabetets historie		0
7	German (de) Geschichte des Alphabets		0
8	Esperanto (eo) Historio de la alfabeto		0
9	Spanish (es) Historia del alfabeto		0
10	Finnish (fi) Aakkosten historia		0

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

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