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 55.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). 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 3583rd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.
The 4699th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.
Global Wikipedia:
The 5480th most popular in AI.
Achievements in the last month:
Simple English Wikipedia:
The 4311th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Sign language”, its content was written by 36 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (4699th place) and edited by 3388 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (5480th place).

The article is cited 89 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 14233 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #230 in August 2014
  • Global: #528 in December 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #838 in March 2023
  • Global: #6114 in September 2008

There are 50 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
1Croatian (hr)
Znakovni jezik
91.1111
2English (en)
Sign language
82.8121
3Turkish (tr)
İşaret dili
75.1262
4German (de)
Gebärdensprache
66.4845
5Hindi (hi)
सांकेतिक भाषा
65.9057
6Estonian (et)
Viipekeel
65.7983
7Esperanto (eo)
Signolingvo
56.8187
8Simple English (simple)
Sign language
55.2158
9Spanish (es)
Lengua de señas
50.0005
10Dutch (nl)
Gebarentaal
49.4808
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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
7 572 247
2Spanish (es)
Lengua de señas
4 511 353
3German (de)
Gebärdensprache
1 785 241
4Japanese (ja)
手話
1 773 754
5Russian (ru)
Жестовые языки
1 690 435
6French (fr)
Langue des signes
1 132 630
7Portuguese (pt)
Língua de sinais
1 067 628
8Italian (it)
Lingua dei segni
894 186
9Polish (pl)
Język migowy
605 174
10Arabic (ar)
لغة إشارة
505 963
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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 "Sign language" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Sign language
20 560
2Spanish (es)
Lengua de señas
5 028
3Russian (ru)
Жестовые языки
4 873
4German (de)
Gebärdensprache
3 052
5Japanese (ja)
手話
2 337
6French (fr)
Langue des signes
2 205
7Polish (pl)
Język migowy
1 498
8Simple English (simple)
Sign language
1 238
9Chinese (zh)
手語
1 206
10Italian (it)
Lingua dei segni
1 071
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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
786
2German (de)
Gebärdensprache
320
3Spanish (es)
Lengua de señas
206
4French (fr)
Langue des signes
201
5Dutch (nl)
Gebarentaal
167
6Japanese (ja)
手話
164
7Russian (ru)
Жестовые языки
130
8Italian (it)
Lingua dei segni
115
9Polish (pl)
Język migowy
74
10Portuguese (pt)
Língua de sinais
73
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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 "Sign language" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Sign language
6
2Serbian (sr)
Знаковни језик
4
3Basque (eu)
Keinu hizkuntza
2
4Catalan (ca)
Llengua de signes
1
5Hungarian (hu)
Jelnyelv
1
6Indonesian (id)
Bahasa isyarat
1
7Japanese (ja)
手話
1
8Korean (ko)
수화
1
9Russian (ru)
Жестовые языки
1
10Slovak (sk)
Posunková reč
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
3 678
2Chinese (zh)
手語
888
3Japanese (ja)
手話
779
4Indonesian (id)
Bahasa isyarat
751
5French (fr)
Langue des signes
732
6German (de)
Gebärdensprache
689
7Italian (it)
Lingua dei segni
597
8Persian (fa)
زبان اشاره
521
9Portuguese (pt)
Língua de sinais
402
10Spanish (es)
Lengua de señas
381
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
لغة إشارة
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
koKorean
수화
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:
#838
03.2023
Global:
#6114
09.2008

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#230
08.2014
Global:
#528
12.2002

Local popularity rank history

Global popularity rank history

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Sign language from Wikipedia articles about American Sign Language, Language, Communication, Phonetics and Linguistics. Whereas reading the article about Sign language people most often go to Wikipedia articles on American Sign Language, List of sign languages, International Sign, Mutual intelligibility and 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: 수화
zhminnan: Chhiú-gí

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