Malayalam

Quality:

Malayalam - Dravidian language of Southern India. Article “Malayalam” in English Wikipedia has 96.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 310 references and 42 sections.

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

In June 2026 the article “Malayalam” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 12 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Malayalam”, its content was written by 1134 registered users of English Wikipedia (5036^th place) and edited by 2489 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 15604 times in English Wikipedia (1168^th place) and cited 34134 times in all languages (4950^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1607 in February 2012
• Global: #413 in June 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2844 in July 2013
• Global: #8125 in November 2022

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, 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) Malayalam		96.4511
2	Catalan (ca) Malaiàlam		80.5539
3	Tamil (ta) மலையாளம்		37.1751
4	Thai (th) ภาษามลยาฬัม		35.9721
5	Greek (el) Μαλαγιαλάμ		35.2862
6	Latin (la) Lingua Malabarica		31.1928
7	Serbian (sr) Малајалам (језик)		30.9129
8	French (fr) Malayalam		29.4648
9	Spanish (es) Idioma malabar		29.014
10	Swedish (sv) Malayalam		27.7586

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Malayalam		16 667 804
2	German (de) Malayalam		387 041
3	Tamil (ta) மலையாளம்		280 390
4	Russian (ru) Малаялам		268 535
5	Hindi (hi) मलयालम भाषा		256 212
6	Spanish (es) Idioma malabar		244 373
7	French (fr) Malayalam		218 371
8	Japanese (ja) マラヤーラム語		180 009
9	Chinese (zh) 马拉雅拉姆语		146 808
10	Arabic (ar) اللغة الماليالامية		139 717

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) Malayalam		41 702
2	Tamil (ta) மலையாளம்		1 455
3	Russian (ru) Малаялам		1 426
4	German (de) Malayalam		1 365
5	Japanese (ja) マラヤーラム語		843
6	French (fr) Malayalam		828
7	Spanish (es) Idioma malabar		677
8	Chinese (zh) 马拉雅拉姆语		659
9	Italian (it) Lingua malayāḷaṁ		468
10	Hindi (hi) मलयालम भाषा		363

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Malayalam		1 134
2	French (fr) Malayalam		118
3	German (de) Malayalam		112
4	Italian (it) Lingua malayāḷaṁ		86
5	Russian (ru) Малаялам		73
6	Dutch (nl) Malayalam		59
7	Spanish (es) Idioma malabar		55
8	Hindi (hi) मलयालम भाषा		53
9	Danish (da) Malayalam (sprog)		48
10	Hebrew (he) מלאיאלאם		43

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) Malayalam		3
2	Serbian (sr) Малајалам (језик)		2
3	Arabic (ar) اللغة الماليالامية		1
4	Catalan (ca) Malaiàlam		1
5	Basque (eu) Malabarera		1
6	Tamil (ta) மலையாளம்		1
7	Uzbek (uz) Malayalam		1
8	Vietnamese (vi) Tiếng Malayalam		1
9	Chinese (zh) 马拉雅拉姆语		1
10	Azerbaijani (az) Malayalam dili		0

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

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