List of endangered languages

Quality:

Lists of endangered languages - Wikimedia list article. Article “List of endangered languages” in Simple English Wikipedia has 12.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 7 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.64 points.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “List of endangered languages”, its content was written by 20 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 407 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 3 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 102 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #744 in May 2004
• Global: #5939 in February 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #905 in June 2026
• Global: #93079 in October 2025

There are 9 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	German (de) Liste bedrohter Sprachen		34.1136
2	Japanese (ja) 消滅危機言語の一覧		29.5711
3	English (en) Lists of endangered languages		25.9083
4	French (fr) Listes des langues en danger		15.7538
5	Finnish (fi) Luettelo uhanalaisista kielistä		12.3627
6	Simple English (simple) List of endangered languages		12.1486
7	Persian (fa) فهرست زبان‌های در خطر		7.3506
8	Slovenian (sl) Seznam ogroženih jezikov		6.6047
9	Czech (cs) Seznam ohrožených jazyků		3.4726

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lists of endangered languages		1 519 477
2	Japanese (ja) 消滅危機言語の一覧		673 047
3	German (de) Liste bedrohter Sprachen		227 850
4	Simple English (simple) List of endangered languages		45 442
5	Slovenian (sl) Seznam ogroženih jezikov		8 400
6	Czech (cs) Seznam ohrožených jazyků		2 938
7	Persian (fa) فهرست زبان‌های در خطر		2 569
8	French (fr) Listes des langues en danger		1 219
9	Finnish (fi) Luettelo uhanalaisista kielistä		1 061

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) Lists of endangered languages		10 775
2	Japanese (ja) 消滅危機言語の一覧		2 715
3	Simple English (simple) List of endangered languages		990
4	German (de) Liste bedrohter Sprachen		664
5	French (fr) Listes des langues en danger		47
6	Persian (fa) فهرست زبان‌های در خطر		16
7	Czech (cs) Seznam ohrožených jazyků		14
8	Finnish (fi) Luettelo uhanalaisista kielistä		11
9	Slovenian (sl) Seznam ogroženih jezikov		5

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Lists of endangered languages		203
2	German (de) Liste bedrohter Sprachen		103
3	Japanese (ja) 消滅危機言語の一覧		51
4	Simple English (simple) List of endangered languages		20
5	Slovenian (sl) Seznam ogroženih jezikov		10
6	French (fr) Listes des langues en danger		9
7	Czech (cs) Seznam ohrožených jazyků		4
8	Finnish (fi) Luettelo uhanalaisista kielistä		4
9	Persian (fa) فهرست زبان‌های در خطر		3

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	French (fr) Listes des langues en danger		1
2	Czech (cs) Seznam ohrožených jazyků		0
3	German (de) Liste bedrohter Sprachen		0
4	English (en) Lists of endangered languages		0
5	Persian (fa) فهرست زبان‌های در خطر		0
6	Finnish (fi) Luettelo uhanalaisista kielistä		0
7	Japanese (ja) 消滅危機言語の一覧		0
8	Simple English (simple) List of endangered languages		0
9	Slovenian (sl) Seznam ogroženih jezikov		0

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

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