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Old Japanese

Quality:

Old Japanese - oldest attested stage of the Japanese language. Article “Old Japanese” in Simple English Wikipedia has 11.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 1 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 “Old Japanese”, its content was written by 11 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 477 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 5 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 1211 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #668 in September 2025
  • Global: #32311 in August 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #1073 in July 2020
  • Global: #42779 in May 2018

There are 20 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.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Old Japanese
91.4286
2Malay (ms)
Bahasa Jepun Kuno
80.5128
3Catalan (ca)
Japonès antic
76.689
4Chinese (zh)
上古日語
71.5029
5Italian (it)
Lingua giapponese antica
41.2789
6German (de)
Altjapanische Sprache
35.1956
7Russian (ru)
Старояпонский язык
30.9866
8Norwegian (no)
Gammeljapansk
27.9901
9Japanese (ja)
上代日本語
27.4845
10Arabic (ar)
اللغة اليابانية القديمة
26.4738
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Old Japanese" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Old Japanese
1 593 267
2Japanese (ja)
上代日本語
626 835
3Spanish (es)
Japonés antiguo
131 275
4Chinese (zh)
上古日語
129 598
5Russian (ru)
Старояпонский язык
81 380
6German (de)
Altjapanische Sprache
67 401
7Korean (ko)
상대 일본어
42 050
8Simple English (simple)
Old Japanese
19 622
9Italian (it)
Lingua giapponese antica
19 451
10Persian (fa)
زبان ژاپنی باستان
14 019
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2026

The most popular language versions of the article "Old Japanese" in June 2026
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Old Japanese
5 837
2Japanese (ja)
上代日本語
3 258
3Chinese (zh)
上古日語
825
4Russian (ru)
Старояпонский язык
377
5Spanish (es)
Japonés antiguo
297
6German (de)
Altjapanische Sprache
156
7Italian (it)
Lingua giapponese antica
83
8Korean (ko)
상대 일본어
81
9Vietnamese (vi)
Tiếng Nhật thượng cổ
61
10Catalan (ca)
Japonès antic
52
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Old Japanese" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Old Japanese
173
2German (de)
Altjapanische Sprache
66
3Japanese (ja)
上代日本語
62
4Spanish (es)
Japonés antiguo
28
5Chinese (zh)
上古日語
26
6Italian (it)
Lingua giapponese antica
24
7Korean (ko)
상대 일본어
22
8Russian (ru)
Старояпонский язык
21
9Simple English (simple)
Old Japanese
11
10Norwegian (no)
Gammeljapansk
8
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2026

Language versions of the article "Old Japanese" with the highest AI in June 2026
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Chinese (zh)
上古日語
3
2English (en)
Old Japanese
2
3Turkish (tr)
Eski Japonca
1
4Arabic (ar)
اللغة اليابانية القديمة
0
5Catalan (ca)
Japonès antic
0
6German (de)
Altjapanische Sprache
0
7Spanish (es)
Japonés antiguo
0
8Persian (fa)
زبان ژاپنی باستان
0
9Indonesian (id)
Bahasa Jepang Kuno
0
10Italian (it)
Lingua giapponese antica
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Old Japanese" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Old Japanese
316
2Japanese (ja)
上代日本語
295
3Chinese (zh)
上古日語
131
4Russian (ru)
Старояпонский язык
109
5Indonesian (id)
Bahasa Jepang Kuno
70
6Spanish (es)
Japonés antiguo
49
7German (de)
Altjapanische Sprache
47
8Korean (ko)
상대 일본어
47
9Persian (fa)
زبان ژاپنی باستان
34
10Arabic (ar)
اللغة اليابانية القديمة
24
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Popularity in all years:
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Citations:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
اللغة اليابانية القديمة
caCatalan
Japonès antic
deGerman
Altjapanische Sprache
enEnglish
Old Japanese
esSpanish
Japonés antiguo
faPersian
زبان ژاپنی باستان
idIndonesian
Bahasa Jepang Kuno
itItalian
Lingua giapponese antica
jaJapanese
上代日本語
kaGeorgian
ძველი იაპონური ენა
koKorean
상대 일본어
msMalay
Bahasa Jepun Kuno
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Gamaljapansk
noNorwegian
Gammeljapansk
ruRussian
Старояпонский язык
simpleSimple English
Old Japanese
trTurkish
Eski Japonca
urUrdu
قدیم جاپانی
viVietnamese
Tiếng Nhật thượng cổ
zhChinese
上古日語

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#1073
07.2020
Global:
#42779
05.2018

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#668
09.2025
Global:
#32311
08.2022

Local popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2025 – June 2026)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Old Japanese from Wikipedia articles about Japanese, Proto-Japonic, Kanji, Early Middle Japanese and Eastern Old Japanese. Whereas reading the article about Old Japanese people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Proto-Japonic, Early Middle Japanese, Manyōgana, Japonic and Classical Japanese.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

simple: Old Japanese

News from 1 July 2026

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