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Oral tradition

Quality:

Oral tradition - form of human communication wherein knowledge, art, ideas and cultural material is received, preserved, and transmitted orally from one generation to another. Article “Oral tradition” in Simple English Wikipedia has 3.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). 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.

Since the creation of article “Oral tradition”, its content was written by 12 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1147 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 35 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 7533 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #311 in February 2017
  • Global: #13554 in April 2019

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #5841 in July 2010
  • Global: #12663 in October 2015

There are 40 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, 2025 (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)
Oral tradition
90.7367
2Indonesian (id)
Tradisi lisan
54.4942
3Turkish (tr)
Sözlü gelenek
52.7224
4Armenian (hy)
Բանավոր ավանդույթ
51.9795
5Catalan (ca)
Tradició oral
48.502
6Norwegian (no)
Muntlig tradisjon
48.2852
7Esperanto (eo)
Parola tradicio
43.6754
8Ukrainian (uk)
Усна традиція
36.7722
9Italian (it)
Tradizione orale
36.1078
10Hebrew (he)
מסורת שבעל פה
35.4967
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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 "Oral tradition" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1Spanish (es)
Tradición oral
2 656 697
2English (en)
Oral tradition
2 621 385
3French (fr)
Tradition orale
503 124
4Portuguese (pt)
Tradição oral
467 018
5Indonesian (id)
Tradisi lisan
264 443
6German (de)
Mündliche Überlieferung
258 345
7Japanese (ja)
口承
188 279
8Czech (cs)
Lidová slovesnost
171 213
9Italian (it)
Tradizione orale
146 142
10Polish (pl)
Tradycja oralna
101 853
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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 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Oral tradition" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Oral tradition
11 123
2Spanish (es)
Tradición oral
1 685
3Portuguese (pt)
Tradição oral
796
4French (fr)
Tradition orale
731
5Japanese (ja)
口承
506
6German (de)
Mündliche Überlieferung
464
7Indonesian (id)
Tradisi lisan
372
8Italian (it)
Tradizione orale
331
9Dutch (nl)
Orale traditie
264
10Czech (cs)
Lidová slovesnost
250
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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 "Oral tradition" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Oral tradition
324
2German (de)
Mündliche Überlieferung
117
3French (fr)
Tradition orale
109
4Spanish (es)
Tradición oral
103
5Italian (it)
Tradizione orale
54
6Dutch (nl)
Orale traditie
53
7Portuguese (pt)
Tradição oral
43
8Czech (cs)
Lidová slovesnost
40
9Arabic (ar)
تراث شفهي
23
10Japanese (ja)
口承
23
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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 2025

Language versions of the article "Oral tradition" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Oral tradition
4
2Spanish (es)
Tradición oral
4
3Catalan (ca)
Tradició oral
1
4Arabic (ar)
تراث شفهي
0
5Azerbaijani (az)
Şifahi ənənə
0
6Czech (cs)
Lidová slovesnost
0
7Danish (da)
Mundtlig overlevering
0
8German (de)
Mündliche Überlieferung
0
9Esperanto (eo)
Parola tradicio
0
10Estonian (et)
Pärimus
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 "Oral tradition" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Oral tradition
1 990
2French (fr)
Tradition orale
1 140
3Spanish (es)
Tradición oral
468
4German (de)
Mündliche Überlieferung
463
5Dutch (nl)
Orale traditie
451
6Portuguese (pt)
Tradição oral
372
7Swedish (sv)
Muntlig tradition
329
8Italian (it)
Tradizione orale
308
9Japanese (ja)
口承
252
10Chinese (zh)
口述傳統
213
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
تراث شفهي
azAzerbaijani
Şifahi ənənə
caCatalan
Tradició oral
csCzech
Lidová slovesnost
daDanish
Mundtlig overlevering
deGerman
Mündliche Überlieferung
enEnglish
Oral tradition
eoEsperanto
Parola tradicio
esSpanish
Tradición oral
etEstonian
Pärimus
euBasque
Ahozko usadio
faPersian
فرهنگ شفاهی
fiFinnish
Perimätieto
frFrench
Tradition orale
glGalician
Tradición oral
heHebrew
מסורת שבעל פה
hiHindi
वाचिक परम्परा
huHungarian
Szájhagyomány
hyArmenian
Բանավոր ավանդույթ
idIndonesian
Tradisi lisan
itItalian
Tradizione orale
jaJapanese
口承
koKorean
구전
msMalay
Tradisi lisan
nlDutch
Orale traditie
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Munnleg overlevering
noNorwegian
Muntlig tradisjon
plPolish
Tradycja oralna
ptPortuguese
Tradição oral
ruRussian
Устная традиция
simpleSimple English
Oral tradition
skSlovak
Ľudová slovesnosť
srSerbian
Усмено предање
svSwedish
Muntlig tradition
thThai
ประเพณีมุขปาฐะ
trTurkish
Sözlü gelenek
ukUkrainian
Усна традиція
urUrdu
زبانی روایات
viVietnamese
Truyền thống truyền miệng
zhChinese
口述傳統

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#5841
07.2010
Global:
#12663
10.2015

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#311
02.2017
Global:
#13554
04.2019

Local popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Oral tradition from Wikipedia articles about Folklore, Wake Island, Brothers Grimm, Mansa Musa and La Llorona. Whereas reading the article about Oral tradition people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Epic of Manas, Folklore, Human communication, List of oral repositories and Oral history.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

ja: 口承
ko: 구전

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