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Middle Persian

Quality:

Middle Persian - southwestern Iranian language, predecessor to New Persian. Article “Middle Persian” in English Wikipedia has 82.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 455 references and 47 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 2025 the article “Middle Persian” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Middle Persian”, its content was written by 230 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 989 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1397 times in English Wikipedia and cited 9636 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #8292 in January 2021
  • Global: #6454 in November 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #76691 in June 2025
  • Global: #52244 in June 2025

There are 36 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)
Middle Persian
82.8571
2Persian (fa)
زبان فارسی میانه
59.7476
3Min Nan (zhminnan)
Tiong-kó͘ Pho-su-gú
45.4012
4Vietnamese (vi)
Tiếng Ba Tư trung đại
38.3698
5Indonesian (id)
Bahasa Persia Pertengahan
34.7064
6Hungarian (hu)
Középperzsa nyelv
32.2185
7Hindi (hi)
मध्य फ़ारसी भाषा
27.7944
8Italian (it)
Lingua pahlavi
26.7118
9Hebrew (he)
פרסית אמצעית
23.5492
10Turkish (tr)
Orta Farsça
22.0022
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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 "Middle Persian" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Middle Persian
1 346 961
2Persian (fa)
زبان فارسی میانه
825 043
3Russian (ru)
Среднеперсидский язык
357 530
4Arabic (ar)
اللغة البهلوية
174 366
5German (de)
Mittelpersische Sprache
131 072
6Turkish (tr)
Orta Farsça
108 997
7Polish (pl)
Język pahlawi
90 950
8French (fr)
Moyen perse
86 975
9Japanese (ja)
パフラヴィー語
85 159
10Spanish (es)
Persa medio
70 825
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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 "Middle Persian" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Middle Persian
14 375
2Russian (ru)
Среднеперсидский язык
4 795
3Persian (fa)
زبان فارسی میانه
4 701
4Arabic (ar)
اللغة البهلوية
2 436
5Turkish (tr)
Orta Farsça
1 036
6Japanese (ja)
パフラヴィー語
767
7Spanish (es)
Persa medio
765
8French (fr)
Moyen perse
765
9Italian (it)
Lingua pahlavi
709
10Chinese (zh)
中古波斯语
627
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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 "Middle Persian" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Middle Persian
230
2Persian (fa)
زبان فارسی میانه
218
3German (de)
Mittelpersische Sprache
74
4Russian (ru)
Среднеперсидский язык
50
5Italian (it)
Lingua pahlavi
46
6French (fr)
Moyen perse
43
7Japanese (ja)
パフラヴィー語
29
8Turkish (tr)
Orta Farsça
27
9Polish (pl)
Język pahlawi
25
10Arabic (ar)
اللغة البهلوية
22
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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 "Middle Persian" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Persian (fa)
زبان فارسی میانه
2
2English (en)
Middle Persian
1
3Arabic (ar)
اللغة البهلوية
0
4Azerbaijani (az)
Pəhləvi dili
0
5Catalan (ca)
Pahlavi
0
6Czech (cs)
Střední perština
0
7German (de)
Mittelpersische Sprache
0
8Esperanto (eo)
Mezpersa lingvo
0
9Spanish (es)
Persa medio
0
10Basque (eu)
Pehleviera
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 "Middle Persian" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1Persian (fa)
زبان فارسی میانه
2 153
2English (en)
Middle Persian
1 397
3Portuguese (pt)
Língua persa média
899
4Chinese (zh)
中古波斯语
724
5Russian (ru)
Среднеперсидский язык
536
6Japanese (ja)
パフラヴィー語
374
7German (de)
Mittelpersische Sprache
346
8Arabic (ar)
اللغة البهلوية
307
9French (fr)
Moyen perse
272
10Turkish (tr)
Orta Farsça
258
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
اللغة البهلوية
azAzerbaijani
Pəhləvi dili
caCatalan
Pahlavi
csCzech
Střední perština
deGerman
Mittelpersische Sprache
enEnglish
Middle Persian
eoEsperanto
Mezpersa lingvo
esSpanish
Persa medio
euBasque
Pehleviera
faPersian
زبان فارسی میانه
fiFinnish
Keskipersian kieli
frFrench
Moyen perse
glGalician
Lingua persa media
heHebrew
פרסית אמצעית
hiHindi
मध्य फ़ारसी भाषा
huHungarian
Középperzsa nyelv
hyArmenian
Պահլավերեն
idIndonesian
Bahasa Persia Pertengahan
itItalian
Lingua pahlavi
jaJapanese
パフラヴィー語
koKorean
팔라비어
laLatin
Lingua Persica media
ltLithuanian
Vidurinė persų kalba
noNorwegian
Middelpersisk
plPolish
Język pahlawi
ptPortuguese
Língua persa média
ruRussian
Среднеперсидский язык
simpleSimple English
Middle Persian
svSwedish
Medelpersiska
thThai
ภาษาเปอร์เซียกลาง
trTurkish
Orta Farsça
ukUkrainian
Середньоперська мова
uzUzbek
Pahlaviy
viVietnamese
Tiếng Ba Tư trung đại
zhChinese
中古波斯语
zhminnanMin Nan
Tiong-kó͘ Pho-su-gú

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#76691
06.2025
Global:
#52244
06.2025

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#8292
01.2021
Global:
#6454
11.2012

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 Middle Persian from Wikipedia articles about Sasanian Empire, Persian, Old Persian, Pahlavi dynasty and Zoroastrianism. Whereas reading the article about Middle Persian people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Persian, Pahlavi scripts, Manichaean, Old Persian and Sasanian Empire.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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

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