Linguistics

Quality:

Linguistics - scientific study of language. Article “Linguistics” in Simple English Wikipedia has 19.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 7 sections.

This article has the best quality in Esperanto 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 2632^nd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 4511^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2969^th most popular in all topics.

The 1890^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 6907^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Linguistics”, its content was written by 38 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (4511^th place) and edited by 5180 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1890^th place).

The article is cited 322 times in Simple English Wikipedia (9657^th place) and cited 91325 times in all languages (1685^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #300 in December 2007
• Global: #19 in June 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #48 in April 2012
• Global: #1309 in September 2011

There are 54 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	Esperanto (eo) Lingvistiko		87.8483
2	Finnish (fi) Kielitiede		82.1665
3	German (de) Sprachwissenschaft		73.2323
4	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Lingvistikk		68.518
5	Dutch (nl) Taalkunde		62.9905
6	Croatian (hr) Jezikoslovlje		62.5766
7	Catalan (ca) Lingüística		59.9247
8	English (en) Linguistics		56.5013
9	Basque (eu) Hizkuntzalaritza		54.9917
10	Chinese (zh) 语言学		51.1551

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Linguistics		18 250 802
2	Spanish (es) Lingüística		11 897 095
3	Russian (ru) Лингвистика		3 815 347
4	German (de) Sprachwissenschaft		2 865 303
5	French (fr) Linguistique		2 656 473
6	Portuguese (pt) Linguística		1 972 526
7	Polish (pl) Językoznawstwo		1 196 812
8	Italian (it) Linguistica		1 167 238
9	Japanese (ja) 言語学		1 112 664
10	Hindi (hi) भाषाविज्ञान		926 653

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) Linguistics		30 919
2	German (de) Sprachwissenschaft		9 861
3	French (fr) Linguistique		5 571
4	Spanish (es) Lingüística		4 392
5	Russian (ru) Лингвистика		3 376
6	Portuguese (pt) Linguística		2 739
7	Japanese (ja) 言語学		2 581
8	Chinese (zh) 语言学		1 849
9	Italian (it) Linguistica		1 488
10	Dutch (nl) Taalkunde		1 354

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Linguistics		1 007
2	German (de) Sprachwissenschaft		367
3	French (fr) Linguistique		308
4	Spanish (es) Lingüística		283
5	Russian (ru) Лингвистика		254
6	Italian (it) Linguistica		180
7	Dutch (nl) Taalkunde		158
8	Portuguese (pt) Linguística		149
9	Persian (fa) زبان‌شناسی		123
10	Polish (pl) Językoznawstwo		116

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	Danish (da) Sprogvidenskab		3
2	Korean (ko) 언어학		2
3	Ukrainian (uk) Мовознавство		2
4	German (de) Sprachwissenschaft		1
5	English (en) Linguistics		1
6	Spanish (es) Lingüística		1
7	Basque (eu) Hizkuntzalaritza		1
8	Norwegian (no) Lingvistikk		1
9	Romanian (ro) Lingvistică		1
10	Serbian (sr) Лингвистика		1

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

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