Most Popular Programming Languages
Ranked by Wikipedia monthly pageviews β the real-world attention signal across 8 languages.
100
Ranked
961,475
Total Monthly Views
1
English
West Germanic language
65,353
views / month
views / month
2
Spanish
Romance language originating in the Iberian Peninsula
27,004
views / month
views / month
3
German
West Germanic language native to Central Europe
19,520
views / month
views / month
4
Tamil
Dravidian language native to South India and Sri Lanka
19,405
views / month
views / month
5
Russian
East Slavic language
17,739
views / month
views / month
6
Hindi
Indo-Aryan language spoken in India
17,586
views / month
views / month
7
Sanskrit
ancient Indo-Aryan language of South Asia
17,442
views / month
views / month
8
French
Romance language
17,398
views / month
views / month
9
Latin
Indo-European language of the Italic branch
15,814
views / month
views / month
10
Japanese
language spoken in East Asia
15,467
views / month
views / month
11
Irish
language native to Ireland
14,851
views / month
views / month
12
Albanian
Indo-European language, spoken primarily in Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, and Montenegro
14,693
views / month
views / month
13
Greek
Indo-European language
14,511
views / month
views / month
14
Telugu
Dravidian language native to South India
14,022
views / month
views / month
15
Basque
language of the Basque people
13,986
views / month
views / month
16
Hebrew
Northwest Semitic language
13,919
views / month
views / month
17
Arabic
Semitic language and lingua franca of the Arab world
13,798
views / month
views / month
18
Catalan
Western Romance language
13,198
views / month
views / month
19
Korean
language spoken in Korean Peninsula and some parts of North-eastern China
12,999
views / month
views / month
20
Welsh
Brittonic language spoken natively in Wales
12,133
views / month
views / month
21
Italian
Romance language
12,117
views / month
views / month
22
Aramaic
Semitic language
11,882
views / month
views / month
23
Ancient Greek
forms of Greek used from around the 9th century BCE to the 6th century CE
11,629
views / month
views / month
24
Maltese
Semitic language spoken mostly in Malta
11,607
views / month
views / month
25
Afrikaans
West Germanic language, spoken in South Africa and Namibia
11,581
views / month
views / month
26
Persian
Western Iranian language
11,466
views / month
views / month
27
Esperanto
international auxiliary language designed by L. L. Zamenhof
11,414
views / month
views / month
28
Yiddish
High German-derived language used by Ashkenazi Jews
11,251
views / month
views / month
29
Punjabi
Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Punjab region of Pakistan and India
11,150
views / month
views / month
30
Proto-Indo-European
proto-language of the Indo-European languages
11,104
views / month
views / month
31
Malayalam
Dravidian language of Southern India
11,067
views / month
views / month
32
Scots
West Germanic language
10,412
views / month
views / month
33
Tagalog
Austronesian language; native language of the Tagalog ethnic group
10,285
views / month
views / month
34
Chinese
language group of the Sinitic languages
10,024
views / month
views / month
35
Cantonese
variety of Yue Chinese spoken in Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and Macau
9,826
views / month
views / month
36
Scottish Gaelic
Goidelic Celtic language of Scotland
9,699
views / month
views / month
37
Mandarin
major branch of Chinese spoken across most of northern and southwestern China
9,662
views / month
views / month
38
Portuguese
Western Romance language
9,467
views / month
views / month
39
Dutch
West Germanic language
9,378
views / month
views / month
40
Pashto
Indo-Aryan language of Afghanistan and Pakistan
9,228
views / month
views / month
41
Indonesian
official language of Indonesia
8,889
views / month
views / month
42
Akkadian
extinct Semitic language of Mesopotamia
8,818
views / month
views / month
43
Georgian
Kartvelian language
8,758
views / month
views / month
44
Romansh
Romance language spoken in the Swiss canton of Grisons (GraubΓΌnden)
8,717
views / month
views / month
45
Maipure
language
8,716
views / month
views / month
46
Urdu
Indo-Aryan language spoken in South Asia
8,558
views / month
views / month
47
Hungarian
Uralic language
8,487
views / month
views / month
48
Sumerian
language of ancient Sumer
8,302
views / month
views / month
49
Kannada
Dravidian language native to South India
8,239
views / month
views / month
50
Afroasiatic
large language family of Africa and West Asia
8,227
views / month
views / month
51
Bangla
Indo-Aryan language mostly spoken in Bangladesh and India
8,142
views / month
views / month
52
Romanian
Romance language
8,005
views / month
views / month
53
Old English
earliest historical form of English
7,655
views / month
views / month
54
Bubble
visual programming language
7,578
views / month
views / month
55
Bulgarian
South Slavic language
7,415
views / month
views / month
56
Finnish
Finno-Ugric language mostly spoken in Finland
7,074
views / month
views / month
57
Occitan
Romance language of Western Europe
7,035
views / month
views / month
58
Nahuatl
language of the Nahuan branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family
6,970
views / month
views / month
59
Ukrainian
East Slavic language
6,847
views / month
views / month
60
Jamaican Patois
English-based creole spoken in and around Jamaica; it additionally takes influence from various African languages, parti
6,623
views / month
views / month
61
Old Norse
North Germanic language
6,581
views / month
views / month
62
Marathi
Indo-Aryan language
6,505
views / month
views / month
63
Swahili
Bantu language spoken mainly in East Africa
6,445
views / month
views / month
64
Hausa
Chadic language native to the Hausa people
6,436
views / month
views / month
65
Swedish
North Germanic language spoken in Sweden and Finland
6,400
views / month
views / month
66
Turkish
Oghuz Turkic language of the Turkish people
6,387
views / month
views / month
67
Coptic
latest stage of the Egyptian language
6,237
views / month
views / month
68
Hawaiian
Polynesian language
6,207
views / month
views / month
69
Scratch
programming language learning environment
6,103
views / month
views / month
70
Burmese
Sino-Tibetan language of Myanmar
6,064
views / month
views / month
71
Linear A
undeciphered writing system from Crete
5,943
views / month
views / month
72
Standard Chinese
standard form of the Chinese language
5,640
views / month
views / month
73
Danish
North Germanic language spoken in Northern Europe
5,534
views / month
views / month
74
Vietnamese
Austroasiatic language originating in Vietnam
5,530
views / month
views / month
75
Lithuanian
Baltic language spoken in Lithuania
5,521
views / month
views / month
76
Amharic
Semitic language of Ethiopia
5,510
views / month
views / month
77
American English
set of dialects of the English language spoken in the United States
5,456
views / month
views / month
78
Vulgar Latin
non-standard Latin variety spoken by the people of Ancient Rome
5,431
views / month
views / month
79
Serbo-Croatian
South Slavic language
5,396
views / month
views / month
80
Khmer
Austroasiatic language of Cambodia
5,392
views / month
views / month
81
Toki Pona
minimalist language created by Sonja Lang
5,298
views / month
views / month
82
Gujarati
Indo-Aryan language that is spoken in the Indian state of Gujarat
5,268
views / month
views / month
83
Polish
West Slavic language
5,235
views / month
views / month
84
Azerbaijani
Oghuz Turkic language
5,224
views / month
views / month
85
Norwegian
North Germanic language spoken in Norway
5,140
views / month
views / month
86
Armenian
Indo-European language
5,122
views / month
views / month
87
Croatian
South Slavic language spoken in Croatia
5,046
views / month
views / month
88
Malay
Austronesian macrolanguage, basis for Malaysian Malay and Indonesian
4,977
views / month
views / month
89
Gothic
extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths
4,960
views / month
views / month
90
Thai
Tai language
4,949
views / month
views / month
91
Middle English
stage of the English language from about the 12th through 15th centuries
4,833
views / month
views / month
92
Belarusian
East Slavic language
4,821
views / month
views / month
93
Shona
Bantu language of Zimbabwe and Mozambique
4,818
views / month
views / month
94
Egyptian
extinct language spoken in ancient Egypt
4,785
views / month
views / month
95
Kazakh
Turkic language in Central Asia, state language of Kazakhstan
4,739
views / month
views / month
96
Low German
West Germanic language spoken mainly in northern Germany and the eastern part of the Netherlands
4,731
views / month
views / month
97
Xhosa
Nguni language of southern South Africa
4,698
views / month
views / month
98
Somali
Afroasiatic language belonging to the Cushitic branch
4,668
views / month
views / month
99
Galician
Western Ibero-Romance language
4,663
views / month
views / month
100
Koine Greek
common dialect of Greek spoken and written in the ancient world
4,640
views / month
views / month