Southern Ndebele language

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Southern Ndebele language

Quality:

Southern Ndebele - language belonging to the Nguni group of Bantu languages, one of the official languages of South Africa. Article “Southern Ndebele language” in Simple English Wikipedia has 28.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 6 references and 1 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Southern Ndebele language”, its content was written by 1 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 498 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 21 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 2195 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #12618 in May 2026
  • Global: #9632 in November 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #51277 in November 2020
  • Global: #167874 in June 2010

There are 35 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
1Indonesian (id)
Bahasa Ndebele Selatan
41.1696
2English (en)
Southern Ndebele language
35.5726
3German (de)
Süd-Ndebele
30.219
4Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn)
Sørndebele
29.9185
5Simple English (simple)
Southern Ndebele language
28.9222
6Persian (fa)
زبان اندبله جنوبی
26.9079
7Esperanto (eo)
Suda ndebela lingvo
26.8636
8Italian (it)
Lingua ndebele del sud
26.0928
9Catalan (ca)
Ndebele del sud
23.5162
10Russian (ru)
Южный ндебеле
23.0515
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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 "Southern Ndebele language" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Southern Ndebele language
582 915
2Portuguese (pt)
Língua andebele meridional
52 795
3German (de)
Süd-Ndebele
41 823
4Polish (pl)
Język ndebele południowy
36 989
5Japanese (ja)
南ンデベレ語
30 182
6French (fr)
Ndébélé du Transvaal
29 132
7Spanish (es)
Idioma ndebele meridional
29 049
8Russian (ru)
Южный ндебеле
23 705
9Italian (it)
Lingua ndebele del sud
17 578
10Turkish (tr)
Güney Ndebele dili
11 389
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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 "Southern Ndebele language" in June 2026
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Southern Ndebele language
2 716
2Russian (ru)
Южный ндебеле
181
3German (de)
Süd-Ndebele
177
4Japanese (ja)
南ンデベレ語
147
5Polish (pl)
Język ndebele południowy
139
6French (fr)
Ndébélé du Transvaal
138
7Italian (it)
Lingua ndebele del sud
132
8Spanish (es)
Idioma ndebele meridional
117
9Portuguese (pt)
Língua andebele meridional
90
10Chinese (zh)
南恩德贝莱语
87
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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 "Southern Ndebele language" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Southern Ndebele language
136
2French (fr)
Ndébélé du Transvaal
40
3Dutch (nl)
Zuid-Ndebele (taal)
37
4German (de)
Süd-Ndebele
33
5Italian (it)
Lingua ndebele del sud
33
6Portuguese (pt)
Língua andebele meridional
23
7Galician (gl)
Lingua ndebele meridional
22
8Japanese (ja)
南ンデベレ語
17
9Russian (ru)
Южный ндебеле
15
10Vietnamese (vi)
Tiếng Nam Ndebele
14
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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 "Southern Ndebele language" with the highest AI in June 2026
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Japanese (ja)
南ンデベレ語
1
2Arabic (ar)
اللغة النديبلي الجنوبية
0
3Azerbaijani (az)
Cənubi Ndebele dili
0
4Bulgarian (bg)
Ндебеле (език)
0
5Catalan (ca)
Ndebele del sud
0
6Czech (cs)
Jižní ndebelština
0
7German (de)
Süd-Ndebele
0
8English (en)
Southern Ndebele language
0
9Esperanto (eo)
Suda ndebela lingvo
0
10Spanish (es)
Idioma ndebele meridional
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 "Southern Ndebele language" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Southern Ndebele language
686
2Dutch (nl)
Zuid-Ndebele (taal)
206
3Arabic (ar)
اللغة النديبلي الجنوبية
176
4Polish (pl)
Język ndebele południowy
176
5Portuguese (pt)
Língua andebele meridional
161
6German (de)
Süd-Ndebele
130
7Urdu (ur)
جنوبی انڈیبیلے زبان
80
8French (fr)
Ndébélé du Transvaal
78
9Chinese (zh)
南恩德贝莱语
48
10Russian (ru)
Южный ндебеле
40
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Scores

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Popularity in all years:
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Registered authors in all years:
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Citations:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
اللغة النديبلي الجنوبية
azAzerbaijani
Cənubi Ndebele dili
bgBulgarian
Ндебеле (език)
caCatalan
Ndebele del sud
csCzech
Jižní ndebelština
deGerman
Süd-Ndebele
enEnglish
Southern Ndebele language
eoEsperanto
Suda ndebela lingvo
esSpanish
Idioma ndebele meridional
euBasque
Hego-ndebelera
faPersian
زبان اندبله جنوبی
fiFinnish
Etelä-ndebelen kieli
frFrench
Ndébélé du Transvaal
glGalician
Lingua ndebele meridional
hrCroatian
Ndebele (sotho jezik)
idIndonesian
Bahasa Ndebele Selatan
itItalian
Lingua ndebele del sud
jaJapanese
南ンデベレ語
koKorean
남은데벨레어
ltLithuanian
Pietų ndebelių kalba
nlDutch
Zuid-Ndebele (taal)
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Sørndebele
noNorwegian
Sørndebele
plPolish
Język ndebele południowy
ptPortuguese
Língua andebele meridional
ruRussian
Южный ндебеле
shSerbo-Croatian
Južni Ndebele jezik
simpleSimple English
Southern Ndebele language
svSwedish
Sydndebele
trTurkish
Güney Ndebele dili
ukUkrainian
Південна ндебеле
urUrdu
جنوبی انڈیبیلے زبان
viVietnamese
Tiếng Nam Ndebele
zhChinese
南恩德贝莱语
zhminnanMin Nan
Lâm Ndebele-gí

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#51277
11.2020
Global:
#167874
06.2010

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#12618
05.2026
Global:
#9632
11.2002

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2025 – June 2026)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Southern Ndebele from Wikipedia articles about South Africa, Languages of South Africa, Southern Ndebele people, Nguni and Northern Ndebele. Whereas reading the article about Southern Ndebele people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Southern Ndebele people, Nguni, Northern Ndebele, Northern Ndebele people and Bantu.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

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