Kural

Tirukkuṟaḷ - Classic Tamil-language sacred poetic text. This book is the 945^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 711^th most popular book in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Kural” in Simple English Wikipedia has 50.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 34 references and 7 sections.

This article has the best quality in Tamil Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Kural”, its content was written by 3 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 642 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Tirukkuṟaḷ is on the 711^th place in local ranking of books in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 945^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 29 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4405 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1093 in December 2022
• Global: #23872 in August 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #17339 in November 2023
• Global: #31827 in October 2023

There are 13 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	Tamil (ta) திருக்குறள்		100
2	English (en) Kural		100
3	Persian (fa) تیروکورال		100
4	German (de) Tirukkural		60.3628
5	Simple English (simple) Kural		50.1723
6	Hindi (hi) तिरुक्कुरल		43.6625
7	Chinese (zh) 蒂魯古拉爾		31.8619
8	Spanish (es) Tirukkural		20.4622
9	French (fr) Tirukkuṟaḷ		19.6845
10	Russian (ru) Тируккурал		15.9927

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

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Kural		2 871 293
2	Tamil (ta) திருக்குறள்		2 497 153
3	Hindi (hi) तिरुक्कुरल		55 946
4	German (de) Tirukkural		37 521
5	French (fr) Tirukkuṟaḷ		30 729
6	Polish (pl) Tirukkural		22 347
7	Chinese (zh) 蒂魯古拉爾		14 262
8	Japanese (ja) ティルックラル		7 276
9	Russian (ru) Тируккурал		5 867
10	Simple English (simple) Kural		3 643

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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 "Kural" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Tamil (ta) திருக்குறள்		14 508
2	English (en) Kural		10 258
3	Hindi (hi) तिरुक्कुरल		214
4	French (fr) Tirukkuṟaḷ		133
5	German (de) Tirukkural		103
6	Spanish (es) Tirukkural		103
7	Russian (ru) Тируккурал		103
8	Simple English (simple) Kural		97
9	Chinese (zh) 蒂魯古拉爾		97
10	Japanese (ja) ティルックラル		50

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Kural		369
2	Tamil (ta) திருக்குறள்		134
3	German (de) Tirukkural		48
4	French (fr) Tirukkuṟaḷ		29
5	Hindi (hi) तिरुक्कुरल		25
6	Polish (pl) Tirukkural		12
7	Chinese (zh) 蒂魯古拉爾		6
8	Russian (ru) Тируккурал		5
9	Ukrainian (uk) Тіруккурал		4
10	Spanish (es) Tirukkural		3

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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 "Kural" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Tamil (ta) திருக்குறள்		3
2	German (de) Tirukkural		1
3	English (en) Kural		1
4	Hindi (hi) तिरुक्कुरल		1
5	Spanish (es) Tirukkural		0
6	Persian (fa) تیروکورال		0
7	French (fr) Tirukkuṟaḷ		0
8	Japanese (ja) ティルックラル		0
9	Polish (pl) Tirukkural		0
10	Russian (ru) Тируккурал		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 "Kural" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Kural		3 679
2	Tamil (ta) திருக்குறள்		481
3	Hindi (hi) तिरुक्कुरल		57
4	Chinese (zh) 蒂魯古拉爾		46
5	German (de) Tirukkural		34
6	Simple English (simple) Kural		29
7	French (fr) Tirukkuṟaḷ		20
8	Spanish (es) Tirukkural		16
9	Japanese (ja) ティルックラル		14
10	Russian (ru) Тируккурал		13

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#	Language	Value
de	German Tirukkural
en	English Kural
es	Spanish Tirukkural
fa	Persian تیروکورال
fr	French Tirukkuṟaḷ
hi	Hindi तिरुक्कुरल
ja	Japanese ティルックラル
pl	Polish Tirukkural
ru	Russian Тируккурал
simple	Simple English Kural
ta	Tamil திருக்குறள்
uk	Ukrainian Тіруккурал
zh	Chinese 蒂魯古拉爾

Best Rank

Simple English: #17339 11.2023

Global: #31827 10.2023

Best Rank

Simple English: #1093 12.2022

Global: #23872 08.2020

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