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Zulu language

Quality:

Zulu - Nguni language of eastern South Africa and neighbouring countries. Article “Zulu language” in Simple English Wikipedia has 49.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 12 references and 11 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:
Simple English Wikipedia:
The 5733rd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

Since the creation of article “Zulu language”, its content was written by 12 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1671 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 67 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 8339 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Simple English): #1673 in November 2017
  • Global: #3750 in June 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Simple English): #1484 in July 2020
  • Global: #18160 in June 2010

There are 48 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
1English (en)
Zulu language
67.2748
2Estonian (et)
Suulu keel
62.1935
3Simple English (simple)
Zulu language
49.275
4Catalan (ca)
Zulu
48.7682
5Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn)
Zulu
39.5121
6Latin (la)
Lingua Zuluana
39.0709
7German (de)
IsiZulu
37.5366
8Portuguese (pt)
Língua zulu
34.2565
9Indonesian (id)
Bahasa Zulu
32.9855
10Serbian (sr)
Зулу (језик)
30.9095
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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 "Zulu language" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Zulu language
3 768 965
2French (fr)
Zoulou
454 728
3Russian (ru)
Зулу
437 246
4German (de)
IsiZulu
394 198
5Spanish (es)
Idioma zulú
310 892
6Polish (pl)
Język zulu
228 321
7Japanese (ja)
ズールー語
214 320
8Portuguese (pt)
Língua zulu
206 616
9Italian (it)
Lingua zulu
145 963
10Chinese (zh)
祖鲁语
106 671
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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 "Zulu language" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Zulu language
16 535
2Russian (ru)
Зулу
2 025
3German (de)
IsiZulu
1 262
4French (fr)
Zoulou
1 221
5Japanese (ja)
ズールー語
1 035
6Spanish (es)
Idioma zulú
983
7Chinese (zh)
祖鲁语
561
8Italian (it)
Lingua zulu
543
9Portuguese (pt)
Língua zulu
440
10Polish (pl)
Język zulu
438
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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 "Zulu language" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Zulu language
416
2French (fr)
Zoulou
132
3German (de)
IsiZulu
124
4Italian (it)
Lingua zulu
86
5Russian (ru)
Зулу
84
6Dutch (nl)
Zoeloe (taal)
76
7Norwegian (no)
Zulu (språk)
49
8Spanish (es)
Idioma zulú
47
9Danish (da)
Zulu (sprog)
41
10Polish (pl)
Język zulu
40
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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 "Zulu language" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Zulu language
2
2Italian (it)
Lingua zulu
1
3Russian (ru)
Зулу
1
4Serbian (sr)
Зулу (језик)
1
5Tamil (ta)
சுலு மொழி
1
6Urdu (ur)
زولو زبان
1
7Arabic (ar)
اللغة الزولوية
0
8Azerbaijani (az)
Zulu dili
0
9Belarusian (be)
Зулу
0
10Bulgarian (bg)
Зулуски език
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 "Zulu language" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Zulu language
2 404
2Dutch (nl)
Zoeloe (taal)
525
3French (fr)
Zoulou
489
4Estonian (et)
Suulu keel
471
5German (de)
IsiZulu
457
6Russian (ru)
Зулу
356
7Arabic (ar)
اللغة الزولوية
294
8Portuguese (pt)
Língua zulu
269
9Polish (pl)
Język zulu
255
10Chinese (zh)
祖鲁语
205
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Popularity in all years:
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Citations:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
اللغة الزولوية
azAzerbaijani
Zulu dili
beBelarusian
Зулу
bgBulgarian
Зулуски език
caCatalan
Zulu
csCzech
Zuluština
daDanish
Zulu (sprog)
deGerman
IsiZulu
elGreek
Ζουλού γλώσσα
enEnglish
Zulu language
eoEsperanto
Zulua lingvo
esSpanish
Idioma zulú
etEstonian
Suulu keel
euBasque
Zuluera
faPersian
زبان زولو
fiFinnish
Zulun kieli
frFrench
Zoulou
glGalician
Lingua zulú
heHebrew
זולו (שפה)
hiHindi
ज़ुलु भाषा
hrCroatian
Zulu jezik
huHungarian
Zulu nyelv
idIndonesian
Bahasa Zulu
itItalian
Lingua zulu
jaJapanese
ズールー語
koKorean
줄루어
laLatin
Lingua Zuluana
ltLithuanian
Zulų kalba
msMalay
Bahasa Zulu
nlDutch
Zoeloe (taal)
nnNorwegian (Nynorsk)
Zulu
noNorwegian
Zulu (språk)
plPolish
Język zulu
ptPortuguese
Língua zulu
roRomanian
Limba zulu
ruRussian
Зулу
shSerbo-Croatian
Zulu jezik
simpleSimple English
Zulu language
srSerbian
Зулу (језик)
svSwedish
Zulu (språk)
taTamil
சுலு மொழி
trTurkish
Zuluca
ukUkrainian
Зулу
urUrdu
زولو زبان
uzUzbek
Zulu
viVietnamese
Tiếng Zulu
zhChinese
祖鲁语
zhminnanMin Nan
Zulu-gí

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#1484
07.2020
Global:
#18160
06.2010

AI rank trends

Best Rank Simple English:
#1673
11.2017
Global:
#3750
06.2012

Local 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 Zulu from Wikipedia articles about South Africa, Zulu people, Languages of South Africa, Johannesburg and Xhosa. Whereas reading the article about Zulu people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Zulu people, South Africa, Bantu, Nguni and KwaZulu-Natal.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

fr: Zoulou
tr: Zuluca
ca: Zulu
nn: Zulu
uz: Zulu
zhminnan: Zulu-gí

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