Official language

Quality:

Official language - language given special status in some polity. Article “Official language” in Simple English Wikipedia has 10 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 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.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 9817^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 6829^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 7105^th most popular in AI.

Since the creation of article “Official language”, its content was written by 30 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (6829^th place) and edited by 3033 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (7105^th place).

The article is cited 204 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 101803 times in all languages (1381^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #57 in February 2005
• Global: #465 in July 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1125 in January 2008
• Global: #2716 in April 2008

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	English (en) Official language		69.8235
2	Estonian (et) Ametlik keel		69.7582
3	French (fr) Langue officielle		65.6171
4	Chinese (zh) 官方语言		39.6015
5	Arabic (ar) لغة رسمية		36.2881
6	Czech (cs) Úřední jazyk		35.9384
7	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Offisielt språk		32.1737
8	Persian (fa) زبان رسمی		31.5066
9	Hungarian (hu) Hivatalos nyelv		30.7926
10	Norwegian (no) Offisielt språk		28.5355

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Official language		4 843 419
2	Spanish (es) Idioma oficial		2 347 280
3	German (de) Amtssprache		1 405 479
4	French (fr) Langue officielle		1 385 186
5	Russian (ru) Официальный язык		1 246 394
6	Portuguese (pt) Língua oficial		1 050 286
7	Japanese (ja) 公用語		1 034 084
8	Polish (pl) Język urzędowy		824 648
9	Hindi (hi) राजभाषा		667 941
10	Arabic (ar) لغة رسمية		631 307

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) Official language		8 945
2	Russian (ru) Официальный язык		4 174
3	German (de) Amtssprache		3 596
4	Spanish (es) Idioma oficial		3 330
5	French (fr) Langue officielle		3 021
6	Persian (fa) زبان رسمی		2 240
7	Japanese (ja) 公用語		1 387
8	Polish (pl) Język urzędowy		1 042
9	Italian (it) Lingua ufficiale		993
10	Chinese (zh) 官方语言		889

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Official language		627
2	German (de) Amtssprache		265
3	French (fr) Langue officielle		205
4	Russian (ru) Официальный язык		125
5	Spanish (es) Idioma oficial		118
6	Japanese (ja) 公用語		94
7	Dutch (nl) Officiële taal		92
8	Italian (it) Lingua ufficiale		89
9	Portuguese (pt) Língua oficial		85
10	Hebrew (he) שפה רשמית		77

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) Official language		3
2	Azerbaijani (az) Dövlət dili		1
3	Basque (eu) Hizkuntza ofizial		1
4	Finnish (fi) Virallinen kieli		1
5	Hungarian (hu) Hivatalos nyelv		1
6	Uzbek (uz) Davlat tili		1
7	Arabic (ar) لغة رسمية		0
8	Belarusian (be) Афіцыйная мова		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Официален език		0
10	Catalan (ca) Llengua oficial		0

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

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