Wikipedia Languages

Which Wikipedia languages have the most active contributors?

As of 10 November 2024. Source.

The cells in yellow are very similar languages that are mutually intelligible

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First submitted	January 29, 2013
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Users	Language
121,121	English
17,398	French
17,226	German
14,219	Spanish
12,491	Japanese
8,996	Russian
8,924	Portuguese
7,282	Italian
7,196	Chinese
4,876	Arabic
4,588	Persian
4,278	Polish
3,536	Dutch
3,109	Ukrainian

Users	Language
2,968	Hebrew
2,824	Indonesian
2,340	Turkish
2,286	Czech
2,212	Korean
1,954	Swedish
1,609	Finnish
1,564	Hungarian
1,510	Vietnamese
1,472	Catalan
1,478	Simple English
1,304	Norwegian (Bokmål)
1,258	Thai
1,095	Hindi

Users	Language
1,054	Bengali
1,014	Romanian
914	Greek
886	Serbian
849	Danish
678	Malay
632	Basque
628	Bulgarian
627	Uzbek
573	Estonian
571	Azerbaijani
545	Slovak
470	Croatian
431	Armenian

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100 Recent Comments

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Level 60

May 26, 2016

OH MY GOD I FORGOT DUTCH

Level 24

May 8, 2019

i almost did too if it wasnt for your comment

Level 65

Mar 11, 2021

Level 52

Nov 12, 2024

same :'(

Level 67

May 26, 2016

Good Quiz forgot Afrikaans

+12

Level 43

Jun 6, 2016

And of course, I guess 'Hindu' instead of 'Hindi'. *facepalm*

Level 34

Aug 5, 2017

Funny that Slovenian ranks higher than Slovakia,Azerbaijan,Bengali,and Egyptian Arabic

+14

Level 86

Feb 27, 2019

We have a bit above average interest in this kind of projects (internet/technology, open source ...). IIRC for a long time Slovene was the smallest language Microsoft products were translated into

Level 37

Aug 5, 2017

Great quiz

Level 16

Aug 30, 2017

So fun :D was shocked when "Mongolian" was one of my valid guesses.

Level 73

Sep 21, 2017

It'd be nice to clean up the answers a little bit; eg accepting "Viet" for Vietnamese and "Mongol" for Mongolian, since those are really the names of the languages.

Level 87

Oct 13, 2017

A bit disappointed Vulcan didn't make the list.

+10

Level 92

Jul 25, 2018

What tiny fraction of a percent of Wikipedia visits are from someone logging in?

Level 71

Aug 15, 2018

It would be nice to see it with numbers of articles

Level 60

Aug 1, 2022

Number of articles does not always directly translate into user base. Key example is Swedish and Cebuano languages, with a large number of articles put together by LSJbot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lsjbot)

Very interesting caveats and discussion based on this project...

Level 73

Nov 13, 2018

Can Bahasa or Bahasa Indonesia be accepted for Indonesian? That's what the language is commonly called there.

Level 43

Feb 28, 2019

Not really since there are two versions: bahasa indonesia and bahasa malaysia

Level 71

Mar 1, 2019

But "Bahasa" is usually applied to Bahasa Indonesian whereas "Malay" is usually applied to Bahasa Malaysian. It seems to me like Bahasa should be accepted.

Level 45

Sep 9, 2025

In Indonesian, "Bahasa" means language, (Bahasa Indonesia literally means "Indonesian Language"), so referring Indonesian as Bahasa is actually wrong. It's a popular misconception

Level 76

Mar 1, 2019

You should accept Slovene as well.

Level 80

Mar 5, 2019

Typed Bahasa Indonesia and didn't then try Indonesian, figuring that Indonesian must have been subsumed into 'Malay'. I feel like Bahasa Indonesia should really be accepted, if not just 'Malay', given that it could also refer to Malay.

Level 68

Mar 13, 2019

If there are folks out there translating Wikipedia into new ports for the sake of preserving/promoting endangered or dying languages, I wish someone would start on Sanskrit. I believe there are about 15,000 native speakers, plus many more who know it to varying degrees who use it for liturgical purposes. I mean hell – we've got Latin in there!! ~~•~~ EDIT: Just looked it up, and WOW – there are nearly 5 million people that speak Sanskrit as a second language! That's more than a bunch of the languages – combined! – that *do* appear in the list! (N.B. I love languages.)

Level 67

Apr 16, 2023

Yes, maybe this could help other Indian Wikipedias. I said in another comment that many of them use English scientific names, but many are coined in Sanskrit, which has traditionally been used for scientific words, including many geographic names.

Level 73

May 8, 2019

Belarusian has currently been guessed 57% of the time and Belarusian (Taraškievica) 56%. I wonder how, since you get both for the price of one. Even more shocking is that Egyptian Arabic is more guessed than Arabic.

Level 72

Aug 29, 2019

It's because you get Egyptian Arabic when typing "Arabic" but you don't get Arabic when typing "Egyptian"

Level 77

May 8, 2019

I knew Malayalam but misspelled it.

Level 63

Feb 13, 2024

It's easier to spell if you can remember it's a palindrome.

Level 55

May 8, 2019

I got Anglo-Saxon but not Danish... I quit lol

Level 26

May 8, 2019

Wondering if Arabian could be accepted for Arabic. I know it isn't the same thing, but I'm sure a lot of people(like me) have missed it by typing "Arabian," and especially in this quiz, then trying to name Arabian dialects, such as Saudi Arabian, Egyptian Arabic etc.

Level 74

Nov 20, 2024

So get in the habit of typing "arabic." 🙄

Level 24

May 8, 2019

I got Serbian and Croatian but didn't get Serbo-Croatian. Why are there 3 different languages that sound like they would be the same?!

Level 47

May 8, 2019

Please accept kewlsp33k

Level 58

May 9, 2019

Please add Plattdeutsch. They also have 47.9k articles

Level 80

Jul 29, 2020

It is not based off of the number of articles; it is based off of the number of users. Theoretically, one user could have translated nearly 48,000 German or Dutch (or other language) pages into Low German.

Level 38

May 9, 2019

HOW DID I MISS ITALIAN

Level 75

May 22, 2019

"Make sure to try different dialects!" Um... why? When the answers are given anyway in response to the main language?

Level 60

Jun 23, 2020

May we have Serbo-Croat for Serbo-Croatian? I never heard of it with the -ian until quite recently.

Level 55

Sep 8, 2020

72/80. Somehow missed Finnish.

Level 69

Sep 13, 2020

Can you accept Javanese for Indonesian?

+10

Level 55

Sep 28, 2020

They are different languages.

Level 67

Oct 13, 2020

Adding my support that Bahasa should count for Indonesian, as that most commonly refers to it. Malay would be in reference to Bahasa Malay

Level 76

Nov 1, 2020

Such a frustrating thing to have guessed Sebian, Croatian and Bosnian only to find out Serbo-Croatian was also on the list- I think it doesn't make any sense and it shouldn't work this way. :P

Level 78

Nov 24, 2020

Great quiz, but please consider (as of 2020 version):

- Accept "gallego" for galician

- Accept "traditional" for classical chinese, more widely used

- Accept "astur-leonese" for asturian

- Accept "briton" for breton (maybe?)

Also I get the need for distinct serbian and croatian, but as other people have pointed out, having to type serbo-croatian extra is just too much attention for what is an issue solely due to slavic nationalism. It should be counted if you type either of the two imho.

Level 67

May 22, 2021

I got same Problem!

Level 55

Dec 16, 2021

Briton and Breton are very different things!

Level 83

Dec 18, 2021

the word 'Breton' is precisely a reference to the fact that the original Celtic speakers in Bretagne were emigrants/refugees from Britain. It doesn't mean the same as 'Briton' does now but it's technically the same word

Level 67

Apr 16, 2023

It's also technically the same word as Karma! Same Proto-Indo-European root, different constructions though.

Level 52

Jul 16, 2024

Traditional Chinese is not the same as classical Chinese tho. One is written one is spoken.

Level 21

Dec 26, 2020

i will never understand how anglo-saxon and wu chinese have more views than irish and welsh ahahhaha shows what dire straights these languages are in

Level 88

Feb 2, 2023

Around 80 million people speak wu as their first language.

Level 67

Apr 16, 2023

Wu would probably fit better in Irish and Welsh's boat (maybe not by speakers, but on Wikipedia, especially compared to the number of speakers).

Level 71

Feb 18, 2021

Argh, my mother's family is from Yugoslavia and I didn't even get Serbocroatian.

Level 80

Jul 20, 2021

pretty ridiculous that there is Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Slovene, Macedonian, AND Serbo-Croatian appearing on this quiz. I wouldn't feel too bad about missing the last one, especially, even if you were yourself from Yugoslavia. Though, myself, I guessed all of those would have enough pages to make the cut right away because... of course there would be.

Level 71

Dec 9, 2021

Agree that given the debate regarding whether Serbo-Croatian is a single language or multiple languages the answer set should include EITHER Serbo-Croatian and accept Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, or Montenegrin as acceptable alternatives OR list Serbian, Croatian, and Bosnian as separate answers and give credit for all 3 if you enter Serbo-Croatian. (I guess Montenegrin didn't make the cut). I disagree regarding Slovene and Macedonian, which are broadly accepted as separate languages (with Macedonian being more closely related to Bulgarian than to Serbo-Croatian)

Level 57

Apr 30, 2021

Ils sont ou les 50k de bretons ahaha

Level 83

Dec 8, 2021

en bretagne

Level 46

Sep 29, 2021

where are italian dialects?

Example: venetian, lombard, friulan, sardinian, sicilian...

Level 81

Dec 8, 2021

They are in the source. Venetian has 30k for example, Neapolitan 26k. Not enough to get on the quiz however.

Level 87

Oct 19, 2021

I guess it's gonna be a while before we see any Wikipedia pages displayed in semaphore.

Level 70

Dec 9, 2021

Morse the pity.

Level 74

Dec 9, 2021

Serbo Croat as a type in for Serbo-croatian!?

Level 83

Dec 12, 2021

I typed Mandarin and Chinese filled in so I didn’t try Cantonese, Wu, etc thinking they were all lumped together in Chinese.

Level 71

Dec 13, 2021

I did not expect Anglo-Saxon

Level 61

Dec 14, 2021

so mad for getting serbo-croatian but not DANISH

Level 78

Dec 14, 2021

Haha

Level 78

Dec 14, 2021

Cool quiz

Level 22

Jan 16, 2022

Dinka? (Thuɔŋjäŋ)

Level 60

Jan 23, 2022

'Bahasa Indonesia' as a type in for Indonesian?

Level 60

Aug 1, 2022

Scary, how western-tilted wikipedia still is. I plan to start a Hmong wikipedia with a local community here.

I mean, c'mon I know Latin is instrumental but for it to be soo much higher than a lot of spoken languages with millions of people still alive?

Parenthetically, has anyone found an article that's ONLY in Latin?

Level 81

Mar 30, 2023

I was surprised that Hmong was so low.

Level 67

Apr 16, 2023

I am planning to work on Telugu Wikipedia more soon, and I think a problem is many European-colonized places see the European language as the language for scientific things, including geography. For example, almost every place name is just transliterated from English to Telugu on Wikipedia. Telugu barely has any non-clickbait educational content on YouTube as well. Good luck!

Level 68

Feb 19, 2023

Interesting to see how few people use the free learning resource. Guess it's like leading a horse to water. Some people are satisfied with tiktok & media.

Level 83

May 6, 2023

I've just checked the source and it says that the 'users' here are for accounts, not total hits. It's more than possible to use Wikipedia without an account - indeed probably the vast majority of people do. So maybe do a little research without complaining about the supposed state of society?

Level 68

Mar 27, 2024

Sure, the "Active Users" (registered users who have made at least one edit in the last thirty days):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias

English 125k

German 18k

French > Spanish > Japanese

Russian 9k > Portuguese > Italian > Chinese > Persian

Polish 5k > Dutch > Ukrainian > Arabic > Hebrew > Turkish > Indonesian > Czech > Swedish > Korean 2k

Chinese, Arabic, Indonesian, Hindi, Esperanto, Afrikaans don't seem to fit at first glance

I wonder how many of these are poorly auto-translated pages, and paid groups or other organized efforts

Level 83

Apr 18, 2024

That doesn't function as a reply to my comment. Your post was expressing dismay that nobody uses Wikipedia. I countered this to say that most visitors to Wikipedia are not 'active users' - most people do not have an account or make edits, but nevertheless visit the site. You seem to have countered this by... persisting with the 'active user' argument??

Level 70

May 26, 2023

Never thought about this as a quiz. Great one though.

Level 42

Sep 19, 2023

quite sad that there’s not a single african language on the list and i don’t mean afrikaans that’s pretty much copied from dutch. even welsh is on wikipedia, spoken by a limited amount of people while there are millions of people speaking amharic, swahili or igbo.

Level 63

Feb 13, 2024

I was stunned by no Swahili, Igbo, Yoruba, or Hausa.

Level 63

Jan 26, 2024

dang i tried so many different spellings for gujarati and it's literally just g u j a r a t i

Level 45

Apr 30, 2024

Never heard of the language "Chinese".

Level 70

Dec 21, 2025

There are spoken dialects like Mandarin, Cantonese, Mi Nan etc, but as a written form, they are the same (except Simplified/Traditional)

Level 51

May 10, 2024

from a language perspective serbian, croatian, and serbo-croatian are all essentially the same language

Level 79

Jun 12, 2024

I'm adding on to the requests for "Bahasa Indonesia" to be accepted for Indonesian. I don't speak Indonesian or Malay so I wasn't aware "Bahasa" just means language, and I have often heard the language referred to as Bahasa Indonesia. When that wasn't accepted I likewise assumed it was counted under Malay, given Indonesian is a standardized variety of Malay. It was a similar thought process to why I assumed Filipino was included under Tagalog (which it seems like it is).

Whether "Bahasa" is redundant or not, it's clear I'm not the only one who's done this.

Level 55

Nov 7, 2024

surprised Punjabi didn't make it considering its a top 15 language by native speakers

Level 92

Nov 10, 2024

Serbo-Croatian seems to work as a type-in for Serbian but not Croatian. Never would have guessed Croatian since the quiz accepted Serbo-Croatian as a valid answer.

Level 87

Nov 10, 2024

Ditto. It's infuriating to find out after the quiz that Croatian was a correct answer when I typed "Croatian" as part of "Serbo-Croatian". I typed 100% of "Croatian" and only 57% of "Serbian"!

Level 87

Nov 11, 2024

✋ And a third person here slightly put out that "Serbo Croatian" gave me one of them but not the other (and so I didn't bother trying just "Croatian" on its own... guess which was the only one I missed?)

Level ∞

Nov 11, 2024

Removed as a type-in for Serbian and added a caveat. The people who speak these languages tend to insist they are separate languages even though they are apparently closer to each other than American and British English.

Level 87

Nov 11, 2024

Spanish and Portuguese are mutually intelligible. If you go down that road, you'll have to add more yellow cells. Why not just make Serbo-Croatian a type-in for both languages?

Level 89

Nov 17, 2024

Spanish and Portuguese don't sound the same at all. I doubt they understand each other that easily. What I can tell you is that, as a French-speaker, I don't understand any other romance language very well (Italian and Catalan quite a bit, but very far from perfectly).

Level 66

Nov 19, 2024

I can confirm Spanish and Portuguese are only partially mutually comprehensible. My mother-in-law, a native Portuguese speaker, has had some funny incidents while trying to communicate with her Spanish-speaking housekeeper. They sort of understand each other...until they don't.

Level 74

Nov 20, 2024

As a native Spanish speaker I can assure you Spanish and Portuguese are not mutually intelligible. The vocabulary might be similar in some cases and they're both Romance languages but it's probably less than 50%.

Level 52

Nov 12, 2024

Great quiz! Really enjoyed it. Despite all the comments complaining, this is a great quiz!

Level 65

Nov 19, 2024

Czech and Slovak are mutually intelligible. Same with Malay and Indonesian.

Level 67

Nov 23, 2024

Surprising that there are only 1,478 contributors from the USA! ;)

Level 69

Nov 23, 2024

Haha, Simple English is actually for people who don't speak English natively.

Level 69

Jan 9, 2025

Hey, nitpicker here! Could you add so that if i type "SerboCroatian" i get both Serbian and Croatian? I understood it later on because of the "mutually intelligble", but in several other quizzes about languages typing "SerboCroatian" worked.

Level 66

Aug 2, 2025

You should accept 'euskera' for basque.

Level 52

Nov 25, 2025

Basque editors fighting for their life to make it on the list

Level 25

Jan 21, 2026

Farsi should be accepted for Persian