Japanese language

Quality:

Japanese - language spoken in East Asia. Article “Japanese language” in Simple English Wikipedia has 22.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 2 references and 4 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 722^nd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 537^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1607^th most popular in all topics.

The 652^nd most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 916^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 4269^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Japanese language”, its content was written by 113 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (537^th place) and edited by 7458 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (652^nd place).

The article is cited 1303 times in Simple English Wikipedia (374^th place) and cited 427142 times in all languages (215^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #14 in December 2004
• Global: #56 in August 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #133 in July 2009
• Global: #662 in January 2015

There are 55 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	Malay (ms) Bahasa Jepun		91.9819
2	Chinese (zh) 日语		84.4856
3	Polish (pl) Język japoński		83.2013
4	English (en) Japanese language		77.1547
5	Japanese (ja) 日本語		75.6229
6	Catalan (ca) Japonès		75.1596
7	Ukrainian (uk) Японська мова		73.665
8	Thai (th) ภาษาญี่ปุ่น		71.0009
9	Persian (fa) زبان ژاپنی		70.9362
10	Esperanto (eo) Japana lingvo		64.4403

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Japanese language		31 355 480
2	Japanese (ja) 日本語		8 705 632
3	Russian (ru) Японский язык		5 551 394
4	Chinese (zh) 日语		4 133 390
5	Spanish (es) Idioma japonés		3 597 129
6	German (de) Japanische Sprache		2 279 025
7	Indonesian (id) Bahasa Jepang		2 167 941
8	Portuguese (pt) Língua japonesa		2 008 283
9	Italian (it) Lingua giapponese		1 741 903
10	French (fr) Japonais		1 733 886

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) Japanese language		86 785
2	Japanese (ja) 日本語		23 682
3	Russian (ru) Японский язык		11 859
4	Chinese (zh) 日语		7 596
5	Spanish (es) Idioma japonés		4 922
6	German (de) Japanische Sprache		4 402
7	French (fr) Japonais		3 613
8	Indonesian (id) Bahasa Jepang		3 183
9	Portuguese (pt) Língua japonesa		3 012
10	Korean (ko) 일본어		2 722

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Japanese language		1 518
2	Japanese (ja) 日本語		682
3	German (de) Japanische Sprache		404
4	French (fr) Japonais		402
5	Chinese (zh) 日语		375
6	Russian (ru) Японский язык		307
7	Spanish (es) Idioma japonés		303
8	Italian (it) Lingua giapponese		272
9	Portuguese (pt) Língua japonesa		212
10	Korean (ko) 일본어		197

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) Japanese language		4
2	Catalan (ca) Japonès		2
3	Korean (ko) 일본어		2
4	Malay (ms) Bahasa Jepun		2
5	Czech (cs) Japonština		1
6	Basque (eu) Japoniera		1
7	French (fr) Japonais		1
8	Hebrew (he) יפנית		1
9	Hungarian (hu) Japán nyelv		1
10	Indonesian (id) Bahasa Jepang		1

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

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