Lao language

Quality:

Lao - Kra–Dai language of Southeast Asia. Article “Lao language” in Simple English Wikipedia has 25.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 7 references and 4 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 “Lao language”, its content was written by 20 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1426 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 56 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 8331 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #186 in April 2016
• Global: #2200 in January 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #4232 in July 2020
• Global: #34469 in December 2010

There are 50 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) Lao language		74.7658
2	Portuguese (pt) Língua laociana		45.0681
3	Min Nan (zhminnan) Láu-o-gí		42.3573
4	Swedish (sv) Lao		39.891
5	Chinese (zh) 老挝语		37.1745
6	German (de) Laotische Sprache		36.2504
7	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Laotisk		34.5942
8	Finnish (fi) Laon kieli		34.4852
9	Vietnamese (vi) Tiếng Lào		29.9819
10	Russian (ru) Лаосский язык		25.6881

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lao language		2 396 908
2	Thai (th) ภาษาลาว		858 384
3	Japanese (ja) ラーオ語		312 751
4	Chinese (zh) 老挝语		282 180
5	French (fr) Lao (langue)		245 814
6	Vietnamese (vi) Tiếng Lào		229 427
7	German (de) Laotische Sprache		224 470
8	Russian (ru) Лаосский язык		222 185
9	Spanish (es) Idioma lao		191 281
10	Indonesian (id) Bahasa Lao		131 724

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) Lao language		9 871
2	Chinese (zh) 老挝语		1 444
3	Russian (ru) Лаосский язык		1 282
4	Japanese (ja) ラーオ語		1 137
5	Thai (th) ภาษาลาว		974
6	Italian (it) Lingua lao		604
7	Spanish (es) Idioma lao		549
8	German (de) Laotische Sprache		546
9	Vietnamese (vi) Tiếng Lào		485
10	French (fr) Lao (langue)		430

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Lao language		263
2	German (de) Laotische Sprache		118
3	French (fr) Lao (langue)		100
4	Thai (th) ภาษาลาว		69
5	Italian (it) Lingua lao		66
6	Russian (ru) Лаосский язык		58
7	Dutch (nl) Laotiaans		55
8	Chinese (zh) 老挝语		48
9	Vietnamese (vi) Tiếng Lào		44
10	Japanese (ja) ラーオ語		40

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) Lao language		4
2	Azerbaijani (az) Laos dili		1
3	German (de) Laotische Sprache		1
4	Basque (eu) Laosera		1
5	Finnish (fi) Laon kieli		1
6	Swedish (sv) Lao		1
7	Vietnamese (vi) Tiếng Lào		1
8	Chinese (zh) 老挝语		1
9	Arabic (ar) لغة لاو		0
10	Belarusian (be) Лаоская мова		0

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

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