Tamil language

Quality:

Tamil - Dravidian language native to South India and Sri Lanka. Article “Tamil language” in Simple English Wikipedia has 38.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 11 references and 3 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 1847^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 1944^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5020^th most popular in all topics.

The 4297^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 4030^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 1665^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5527^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Tamil language” was edited by 2 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (1665^th place) and written by 18 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Tamil language”, its content was written by 58 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (1944^th place) and edited by 3797 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4297^th place).

The article is cited 472 times in Simple English Wikipedia (5260^th place) and cited 64719 times in all languages (2530^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #211 in October 2022
• Global: #338 in March 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #110 in November 2022
• Global: #2280 in September 2023

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, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Tamil (ta) தமிழ்		98.8607
2	English (en) Tamil language		94.5985
3	Malay (ms) Bahasa Tamil		88.4653
4	Thai (th) ภาษาทมิฬ		76.3743
5	Catalan (ca) Tàmil		68.0197
6	German (de) Tamil		60.4595
7	Swedish (sv) Tamil		55.6379
8	Korean (ko) 타밀어		54.457
9	Portuguese (pt) Língua tâmil		53.4855
10	Estonian (et) Tamili keel		47.9737

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Tamil language		27 384 256
2	Tamil (ta) தமிழ்		4 001 889
3	French (fr) Tamoul		1 469 388
4	German (de) Tamil		1 368 754
5	Japanese (ja) タミル語		760 282
6	Russian (ru) Тамильский язык		623 630
7	Spanish (es) Idioma tamil		589 599
8	Chinese (zh) 泰米尔语		585 116
9	Hindi (hi) तमिल भाषा		387 988
10	Italian (it) Lingua tamil		350 990

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Tamil language		116 830
2	Tamil (ta) தமிழ்		11 581
3	Russian (ru) Тамильский язык		4 990
4	French (fr) Tamoul		4 714
5	German (de) Tamil		3 878
6	Chinese (zh) 泰米尔语		3 771
7	Japanese (ja) タミル語		3 645
8	Spanish (es) Idioma tamil		2 568
9	Italian (it) Lingua tamil		1 492
10	Simple English (simple) Tamil language		1 294

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Tamil language		1 360
2	French (fr) Tamoul		243
3	German (de) Tamil		229
4	Tamil (ta) தமிழ்		195
5	Russian (ru) Тамильский язык		103
6	Italian (it) Lingua tamil		93
7	Dutch (nl) Tamil (taal)		91
8	Hindi (hi) तमिल भाषा		81
9	Norwegian (no) Tamil (språk)		81
10	Japanese (ja) タミル語		73

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Tamil language		7
2	Arabic (ar) اللغة التاميلية		2
3	Simple English (simple) Tamil language		2
4	Bulgarian (bg) Тамилски език		1
5	Catalan (ca) Tàmil		1
6	Estonian (et) Tamili keel		1
7	Hindi (hi) तमिल भाषा		1
8	Russian (ru) Тамильский язык		1
9	Tamil (ta) தமிழ்		1
10	Chinese (zh) 泰米尔语		1

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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