Languages of South Africa

Quality:

Languages of South Africa - languages of a geographic region. Article “Languages of South Africa” in Simple English Wikipedia has 21.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 6 references and 2 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 “Languages of South Africa”, its content was written by 7 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 543 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 19 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 957 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1104 in January 2021
• Global: #9583 in November 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #947 in April 2020
• Global: #5342 in June 2010

There are 17 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) Languages of South Africa		55.2378
2	Chinese (zh) 南非语言		38.5789
3	Finnish (fi) Etelä-Afrikan kielet		30.815
4	Swedish (sv) Språk i Sydafrika		30.0568
5	French (fr) Langues en Afrique du Sud		27.0225
6	Serbian (sr) Језици Јужноафричке Републике		23.533
7	Bulgarian (bg) Официални езици в Република Южна Африка		22.5252
8	Simple English (simple) Languages of South Africa		21.9332
9	Korean (ko) 남아프리카 공화국의 언어		16.8883
10	Russian (ru) Языки ЮАР		16.846

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Languages of South Africa		4 832 476
2	Spanish (es) Lenguas de Sudáfrica		752 547
3	French (fr) Langues en Afrique du Sud		690 412
4	Portuguese (pt) Línguas da África do Sul		558 254
5	Russian (ru) Языки ЮАР		216 835
6	Dutch (nl) Officiële talen van Zuid-Afrika		199 772
7	Italian (it) Lingue del Sudafrica		137 331
8	Swedish (sv) Språk i Sydafrika		84 886
9	Simple English (simple) Languages of South Africa		80 747
10	Chinese (zh) 南非语言		57 943

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) Languages of South Africa		15 499
2	French (fr) Langues en Afrique du Sud		1 617
3	Spanish (es) Lenguas de Sudáfrica		1 452
4	Russian (ru) Языки ЮАР		893
5	Portuguese (pt) Línguas da África do Sul		871
6	Chinese (zh) 南非语言		669
7	Simple English (simple) Languages of South Africa		583
8	Dutch (nl) Officiële talen van Zuid-Afrika		423
9	Italian (it) Lingue del Sudafrica		310
10	Korean (ko) 남아프리카 공화국의 언어		199

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Languages of South Africa		258
2	Spanish (es) Lenguas de Sudáfrica		47
3	French (fr) Langues en Afrique du Sud		45
4	Dutch (nl) Officiële talen van Zuid-Afrika		44
5	Italian (it) Lingue del Sudafrica		35
6	Russian (ru) Языки ЮАР		29
7	Portuguese (pt) Línguas da África do Sul		20
8	Bulgarian (bg) Официални езици в Република Южна Африка		12
9	Chinese (zh) 南非语言		12
10	Swedish (sv) Språk i Sydafrika		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	Bulgarian (bg) Официални езици в Република Южна Африка		0
2	Catalan (ca) Llengües de Sud-àfrica		0
3	English (en) Languages of South Africa		0
4	Esperanto (eo) Lingvoj de Sud-Afriko		0
5	Spanish (es) Lenguas de Sudáfrica		0
6	Finnish (fi) Etelä-Afrikan kielet		0
7	French (fr) Langues en Afrique du Sud		0
8	Hindi (hi) दक्षिण अफ़्रीका की भाषाएँ		0
9	Italian (it) Lingue del Sudafrica		0
10	Korean (ko) 남아프리카 공화국의 언어		0

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

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