Language death

Quality:

Language death - process when a language loses its last native speaker. Article “Language death” in Simple English Wikipedia has 1.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

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 “Language death”, its content was written by 9 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 711 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 122 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 10732 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1898 in April 2021
• Global: #5950 in January 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #6924 in June 2022
• Global: #84412 in March 2015

There are 30 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) Language death		54.0992
2	Turkish (tr) Dil ölümü		48.6536
3	Dutch (nl) Taaldood		48.3449
4	Tamil (ta) மொழியின் இறப்பு		40.2717
5	German (de) Sprachtod		40.2107
6	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Språkdød		37.3542
7	Spanish (es) Extinción lingüística		35.4354
8	Latin (la) Exstinctio linguarum		31.4295
9	Norwegian (no) Språkdød		28.2701
10	Armenian (hy) Լեզվի մահ		28.1248

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Language death		2 073 346
2	German (de) Sprachtod		231 675
3	Chinese (zh) 語言滅亡		66 038
4	Italian (it) Estinzione linguistica		39 576
5	Persian (fa) مرگ زبان (زبان‌شناسی)		36 455
6	Arabic (ar) موت لغة		33 621
7	Bulgarian (bg) Мъртъв език		29 380
8	Japanese (ja) 言語消滅		29 322
9	Korean (ko) 언어 사멸		25 314
10	Norwegian (no) Språkdød		25 269

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) Language death		4 650
2	Japanese (ja) 言語消滅		445
3	Chinese (zh) 語言滅亡		349
4	German (de) Sprachtod		339
5	Persian (fa) مرگ زبان (زبان‌شناسی)		107
6	Spanish (es) Extinción lingüística		85
7	Italian (it) Estinzione linguistica		72
8	French (fr) Mort d'une langue		70
9	Hebrew (he) היכחדות שפה		55
10	Bulgarian (bg) Мъртъв език		51

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Language death		336
2	German (de) Sprachtod		100
3	Hebrew (he) היכחדות שפה		39
4	Italian (it) Estinzione linguistica		36
5	Persian (fa) مرگ زبان (زبان‌شناسی)		27
6	Arabic (ar) موت لغة		20
7	Hindi (hi) भाषावसान		13
8	Korean (ko) 언어 사멸		13
9	Chinese (zh) 語言滅亡		12
10	Norwegian (no) Språkdød		11

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) Language death		1
2	Hebrew (he) היכחדות שפה		1
3	Arabic (ar) موت لغة		0
4	Bulgarian (bg) Мъртъв език		0
5	Danish (da) Sprogdød		0
6	German (de) Sprachtod		0
7	Esperanto (eo) Lingvomorto		0
8	Spanish (es) Extinción lingüística		0
9	Persian (fa) مرگ زبان (زبان‌شناسی)		0
10	French (fr) Mort d'une langue		0

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

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