Umlaut

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Germanic umlaut - metaphony in Germanic languages, occurring around 450–500, in which vowels are raised or fronted when the following syllable contains /i(ː)/ or /j/; e.g. Engl. foot → feet. Article “Umlaut” in Simple English Wikipedia has 4.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.24 points.

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 “Umlaut”, its content was written by 18 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 295 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 29 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 534 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1293 in March 2016
• Global: #761 in September 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #6504 in July 2011
• Global: #100757 in September 2010

There are 6 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.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Germanic umlaut		64.3942
2	Spanish (es) Umlaut germánico		41.9926
3	Chinese (zh) 日耳曼語元音變音		24.2074
4	Indonesian (id) Umlaut dalam bahasa Jermanik		20.748
5	Arabic (ar) مغيرة جرمانية		19.685
6	Simple English (simple) Umlaut		4.5525

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Germanic umlaut		1 887 746
2	Chinese (zh) 日耳曼語元音變音		33 024
3	Simple English (simple) Umlaut		26 046
4	Indonesian (id) Umlaut dalam bahasa Jermanik		10 254
5	Arabic (ar) مغيرة جرمانية		3 098
6	Spanish (es) Umlaut germánico		1 423

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) Germanic umlaut		2 979
2	Chinese (zh) 日耳曼語元音變音		198
3	Simple English (simple) Umlaut		51
4	Spanish (es) Umlaut germánico		38
5	Indonesian (id) Umlaut dalam bahasa Jermanik		8
6	Arabic (ar) مغيرة جرمانية		0

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Germanic umlaut		251
2	Simple English (simple) Umlaut		18
3	Chinese (zh) 日耳曼語元音變音		9
4	Spanish (es) Umlaut germánico		7
5	Arabic (ar) مغيرة جرمانية		5
6	Indonesian (id) Umlaut dalam bahasa Jermanik		5

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	Arabic (ar) مغيرة جرمانية		0
2	English (en) Germanic umlaut		0
3	Spanish (es) Umlaut germánico		0
4	Indonesian (id) Umlaut dalam bahasa Jermanik		0
5	Simple English (simple) Umlaut		0
6	Chinese (zh) 日耳曼語元音變音		0

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

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