History of the alphabet

Quality:

History of the alphabet - aspect of history. Article “History of the alphabet” in Simple English Wikipedia has 29.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 4 references and 3 sections.

This article has the best quality in Turkish Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “History of the alphabet”, its content was written by 6 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 900 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 7 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 994 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #702 in December 2009
• Global: #2609 in December 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #8313 in January 2010
• Global: #19016 in September 2014

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	Turkish (tr) Alfabe tarihi		77.6897
2	English (en) History of the alphabet		73.3725
3	Catalan (ca) Història de l'alfabet		49.3366
4	Chinese (zh) 字母的歷史		48.6519
5	German (de) Geschichte des Alphabets		45.8816
6	Spanish (es) Historia del alfabeto		43.7801
7	French (fr) Histoire de l'alphabet		41.9392
8	Galician (gl) Historia do alfabeto		41.5983
9	Esperanto (eo) Historio de la alfabeto		35.9088
10	Arabic (ar) تاريخ الأبجدية		34.8404

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) History of the alphabet		2 644 987
2	Spanish (es) Historia del alfabeto		1 470 525
3	Portuguese (pt) História do alfabeto		476 747
4	Russian (ru) История алфавита		352 858
5	French (fr) Histoire de l'alphabet		275 704
6	Italian (it) Storia dell'alfabeto		258 846
7	German (de) Geschichte des Alphabets		228 906
8	Indonesian (id) Sejarah huruf		185 962
9	Arabic (ar) تاريخ الأبجدية		160 913
10	Chinese (zh) 字母的歷史		148 975

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		8 391
2	Russian (ru) История алфавита		1 299
3	Spanish (es) Historia del alfabeto		1 155
4	French (fr) Histoire de l'alphabet		1 065
5	German (de) Geschichte des Alphabets		827
6	Chinese (zh) 字母的歷史		687
7	Portuguese (pt) História do alfabeto		520
8	Italian (it) Storia dell'alfabeto		358
9	Japanese (ja) 音素文字の歴史		323
10	Thai (th) ประวัติศาสตร์อักษร		275

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		341
2	German (de) Geschichte des Alphabets		72
3	Spanish (es) Historia del alfabeto		72
4	Italian (it) Storia dell'alfabeto		72
5	French (fr) Histoire de l'alphabet		40
6	Chinese (zh) 字母的歷史		38
7	Arabic (ar) تاريخ الأبجدية		32
8	Catalan (ca) Història de l'alfabet		30
9	Portuguese (pt) História do alfabeto		28
10	Russian (ru) История алфавита		28

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

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

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