Sign language

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Sign language

Quality:

Sign language - language which uses manual communication and body language to convey meaning. Article “Sign language” in Simple English Wikipedia has 50.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 12 references and 10 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:
Simple English Wikipedia:
The 3752nd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.
The 4330th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.
Global Wikipedia:
The 5452nd most popular in AI.

Since the creation of article “Sign language”, its content was written by 39 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (4330th place) and edited by 3447 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (5452nd place).

The article is cited 93 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 14591 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #230 in August 2014
  • Global: #529 in December 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #835 in March 2023
  • Global: #6102 in September 2008

There are 52 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
1Croatian (hr)
Znakovni jezik
91.1111
2English (en)
Sign language
82.9059
3Turkish (tr)
İşaret dili
75.2106
4Hindi (hi)
सांकेतिक भाषा
65.9073
5German (de)
Gebärdensprache
65.0446
6Estonian (et)
Viipekeel
63.9102
7Esperanto (eo)
Signolingvo
56.1279
8Spanish (es)
Lengua de señas
53.3306
9Simple English (simple)
Sign language
50.5227
10Dutch (nl)
Gebarentaal
49.2063
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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 "Sign language" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Sign language
7 806 040
2Spanish (es)
Lengua de señas
4 567 737
3German (de)
Gebärdensprache
1 817 834
4Japanese (ja)
手話
1 802 449
5Russian (ru)
Жестовые языки
1 681 437
6French (fr)
Langue des signes
1 161 044
7Portuguese (pt)
Língua de sinais
1 075 214
8Italian (it)
Lingua dei segni
908 911
9Polish (pl)
Język migowy
623 448
10Arabic (ar)
لغة إشارة
517 116
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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 "Sign language" in June 2026
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Sign language
15 330
2Russian (ru)
Жестовые языки
4 037
3Spanish (es)
Lengua de señas
3 030
4German (de)
Gebärdensprache
2 632
5French (fr)
Langue des signes
2 042
6Japanese (ja)
手話
1 442
7Chinese (zh)
手語
896
8Italian (it)
Lingua dei segni
798
9Polish (pl)
Język migowy
751
10Turkish (tr)
İşaret dili
677
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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 "Sign language" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Sign language
806
2German (de)
Gebärdensprache
323
3Spanish (es)
Lengua de señas
209
4French (fr)
Langue des signes
206
5Japanese (ja)
手話
172
6Dutch (nl)
Gebarentaal
170
7Russian (ru)
Жестовые языки
133
8Italian (it)
Lingua dei segni
119
9Polish (pl)
Język migowy
75
10Portuguese (pt)
Língua de sinais
74
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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 "Sign language" with the highest AI in June 2026
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Sign language
6
2Hungarian (hu)
Jelnyelv
2
3Serbian (sr)
Знаковни језик
2
4Catalan (ca)
Llengua de signes
1
5German (de)
Gebärdensprache
1
6Spanish (es)
Lengua de señas
1
7Basque (eu)
Keinu hizkuntza
1
8Croatian (hr)
Znakovni jezik
1
9Japanese (ja)
手話
1
10Polish (pl)
Język migowy
1
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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 "Sign language" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Sign language
3 575
2Japanese (ja)
手話
952
3Chinese (zh)
手語
908
4Indonesian (id)
Bahasa isyarat
781
5French (fr)
Langue des signes
748
6German (de)
Gebärdensprache
702
7Italian (it)
Lingua dei segni
597
8Persian (fa)
زبان اشاره
531
9Portuguese (pt)
Língua de sinais
399
10Spanish (es)
Lengua de señas
390
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Scores

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Citations:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
لغة إشارة
azAzerbaijani
İşarə dili
beBelarusian
Жэставая мова
bgBulgarian
Жестомимичен език
caCatalan
Llengua de signes
csCzech
Znakový jazyk
daDanish
Tegnsprog
deGerman
Gebärdensprache
elGreek
Νοηματική γλώσσα
enEnglish
Sign language
eoEsperanto
Signolingvo
esSpanish
Lengua de señas
etEstonian
Viipekeel
euBasque
Keinu hizkuntza
faPersian
زبان اشاره
fiFinnish
Viittomakielet
frFrench
Langue des signes
glGalician
Lingua de sinais
heHebrew
שפת סימנים
hiHindi
सांकेतिक भाषा
hrCroatian
Znakovni jezik
huHungarian
Jelnyelv
hyArmenian
Ժեստերի լեզու
idIndonesian
Bahasa isyarat
itItalian
Lingua dei segni
jaJapanese
手話
kkKazakh
Ым тілі
koKorean
수어
laLatin
Linguae gesticulatoriae
ltLithuanian
Gestų kalba
msMalay
Bahasa isyarat
nlDutch
Gebarentaal
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Teiknspråk
noNorwegian
Tegnspråk
plPolish
Język migowy
ptPortuguese
Língua de sinais
roRomanian
Limba semnelor
ruRussian
Жестовые языки
shSerbo-Croatian
Znakovni jezik
simpleSimple English
Sign language
skSlovak
Posunková reč
slSlovenian
Znakovni jezik
srSerbian
Знаковни језик
svSwedish
Teckenspråk
thThai
ภาษามือ
trTurkish
İşaret dili
ukUkrainian
Жестова мова
urUrdu
اشاری زبان
uzUzbek
Imo-ishora tili
viVietnamese
Ngôn ngữ ký hiệu
zhChinese
手語
zhminnanMin Nan
Chhiú-gí

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#835
03.2023
Global:
#6102
09.2008

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#230
08.2014
Global:
#529
12.2002

Local popularity rank history

Global popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2025 – June 2026)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Sign language from Wikipedia articles about American Sign Language, Disability, Natural language, Communication and Language. Whereas reading the article about Sign language people most often go to Wikipedia articles on American Sign Language, List of sign languages, Language, Indo-Pakistani Sign Language and History of sign language.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

ja: 手話
zh: 手語
ko: 수어
zhminnan: Chhiú-gí

News from 1 July 2026

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In Simple English Wikipedia the most popular articles on that day were: List of European countries, Black, List of sex positions, 2026 Iran war, Suresh Raina, Politics of Germany, Academy Award for Best Director, 2020, DYSS-TV, 2022.

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