Most Popular Programming Languages
Ranked by Wikipedia monthly pageviews — the real-world attention signal across 8 languages.
100
Ranked
3,728,180
Total Monthly Views
1
English
West Germanic language
446,226
views / year
views / year
2
Spanish
Romance language originating in the Iberian Peninsula
176,771
views / year
views / year
3
French
Romance language
161,422
views / year
views / year
4
Latin
Indo-European language of the Italic branch
160,631
views / year
views / year
5
Japanese
language spoken in East Asia
149,494
views / year
views / year
6
German
West Germanic language
139,300
views / year
views / year
7
Russian
East Slavic language
123,781
views / year
views / year
8
Greek
Indo-European language
117,231
views / year
views / year
9
Esperanto
international auxiliary language designed by L. L. Zamenhof
114,540
views / year
views / year
10
Tamil
Dravidian language native to South India and Sri Lanka
107,822
views / year
views / year
11
Hindi
Indo-Aryan language spoken in India
107,401
views / year
views / year
12
Sanskrit
ancient Indo-Aryan language of South Asia
105,244
views / year
views / year
13
Persian
Western Iranian language
101,507
views / year
views / year
14
Arabic
Semitic language and lingua franca of the Arab world
101,108
views / year
views / year
15
Ancient Greek
forms of Greek used from around the 9th century BCE to the 6th century CE
98,994
views / year
views / year
16
Irish
language native to Ireland
96,037
views / year
views / year
17
Hebrew
Northwest Semitic language
95,282
views / year
views / year
18
Basque
language of the Basque people
94,200
views / year
views / year
19
Chinese
language group of the Sinitic languages
89,301
views / year
views / year
20
Dutch
West Germanic language
86,314
views / year
views / year
21
Portuguese
Western Romance language
85,948
views / year
views / year
22
Yiddish
High German-derived language used by Ashkenazi Jews
83,608
views / year
views / year
23
Urdu
Indo-Aryan language spoken in South Asia
82,394
views / year
views / year
24
Italian
Romance language
81,912
views / year
views / year
25
Aramaic
Semitic language
81,404
views / year
views / year
26
Welsh
Brittonic language spoken natively in Wales
79,144
views / year
views / year
27
Korean
language spoken in Korean Peninsula and some parts of North-eastern China
78,505
views / year
views / year
28
Catalan
Western Romance language
73,249
views / year
views / year
29
Telugu
Dravidian language native to South India
70,883
views / year
views / year
30
Bangla
Indo-Aryan language mostly spoken in Bangladesh and India
70,195
views / year
views / year
31
Simplified Technical English
controlled language developed to help users of maintenance documentation
68,956
views / year
views / year
32
Old English
earliest historical form of English
68,565
views / year
views / year
33
Afrikaans
West Germanic language evolved from Dutch vernacular in the 17th–18th century Dutch Cape Colony; spoken primarily in Sou
68,293
views / year
views / year
34
Proto-Indo-European
proto-language of the Indo-European languages
67,758
views / year
views / year
35
Tagalog
Austronesian language; native language of the Tagalog ethnic group
64,729
views / year
views / year
36
Scots
West Germanic language
62,368
views / year
views / year
37
Occitan
Romance language of Western Europe
61,105
views / year
views / year
38
Maltese
Semitic language spoken mostly in Malta
61,090
views / year
views / year
39
Mandarin
major branch of Chinese spoken across most of northern and southwestern China
61,035
views / year
views / year
40
Albanian
Indo-European language, spoken primarily in Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, and Montenegro
60,188
views / year
views / year
41
Scottish Gaelic
Goidelic Celtic language of Scotland
60,059
views / year
views / year
42
Turkish
Oghuz Turkic language of the Turkish people
59,732
views / year
views / year
43
Malayalam
Dravidian language of Southern India
59,198
views / year
views / year
44
Romansh
Romance language spoken in the Swiss canton of Grisons (Graubünden)
57,566
views / year
views / year
45
Indonesian
official language of Indonesia
54,531
views / year
views / year
46
Georgian
Kartvelian language
53,708
views / year
views / year
47
Akkadian
extinct Semitic language of Mesopotamia
53,430
views / year
views / year
48
Hungarian
Ugric language mainly spoken in Hungary and surrounding countries
53,369
views / year
views / year
49
Sumerian
language of ancient Sumer
52,381
views / year
views / year
50
Cantonese
variety of Yue Chinese spoken in Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and Macau
52,114
views / year
views / year
51
Scratch
programming language learning environment
51,572
views / year
views / year
52
Romanian
Romance language
51,404
views / year
views / year
53
Polish
West Slavic language
50,803
views / year
views / year
54
Middle English
stage of the English language from about the 12th through 15th centuries
49,537
views / year
views / year
55
Vietnamese
Austroasiatic language originating in Vietnam
48,965
views / year
views / year
56
American English
set of dialects of the English language spoken in the United States
48,909
views / year
views / year
57
Armenian
Indo-European language
48,698
views / year
views / year
58
Ukrainian
East Slavic language
48,143
views / year
views / year
59
Swahili
Bantu language spoken mainly in East Africa
47,914
views / year
views / year
60
Pashto
Indo-Aryan language of Afghanistan and Pakistan
47,483
views / year
views / year
61
Afroasiatic
large language family of Africa and West Asia
47,345
views / year
views / year
62
Nahuatl
language of the Nahuan branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family
46,548
views / year
views / year
63
Malay
Austronesian macrolanguage, basis for Malaysian Malay and Indonesian
46,485
views / year
views / year
64
Finnish
Finno-Ugric language mostly spoken in Finland
46,142
views / year
views / year
65
Amharic
Semitic language of Ethiopia
46,133
views / year
views / year
66
Kannada
Dravidian language native to South India
46,071
views / year
views / year
67
Punjabi
Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Punjab region of Pakistan and India
44,169
views / year
views / year
68
Linear A
undeciphered writing system from Crete
42,842
views / year
views / year
69
Thai
Tai language
41,952
views / year
views / year
70
Nepali
official language of Nepal
40,816
views / year
views / year
71
Shona
Bantu language of Zimbabwe and Mozambique
40,708
views / year
views / year
72
Mongolian
official language of Mongolia
40,574
views / year
views / year
73
Old Norse
North Germanic language
40,482
views / year
views / year
74
Breton
Celtic language spoken in France
40,200
views / year
views / year
75
Coptic
latest stage of the Egyptian language
40,152
views / year
views / year
76
Egyptian
extinct language spoken in ancient Egypt
39,901
views / year
views / year
77
Cornish
Brythonic Celtic language indigenous to Cornwall
39,675
views / year
views / year
78
Koine Greek
common dialect of Greek spoken and written in the ancient world
39,655
views / year
views / year
79
Filipino
official language of the Philippines; standard and prescriptive form of Tagalog language; alternative name for Tagalog l
39,036
views / year
views / year
80
Romani
language of the Romani people belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family
38,849
views / year
views / year
81
Swedish
North Germanic language spoken in Sweden and Finland
38,775
views / year
views / year
82
Czech
West Slavic language
38,068
views / year
views / year
83
Sinhala
Indo-Aryan language native to Sri Lanka
36,958
views / year
views / year
84
Ainu
language(s) spoken by Ainu ethnic groups in Hokkaido, Kuril and Sakhalin
36,569
views / year
views / year
85
Bubble
visual programming language
35,925
views / year
views / year
86
Danish
North Germanic language spoken in Northern Europe
35,653
views / year
views / year
87
Norwegian
North Germanic language spoken in Norway
35,199
views / year
views / year
88
Low German
West Germanic language spoken mainly in northern Germany and the eastern part of the Netherlands
35,040
views / year
views / year
89
Lithuanian
Baltic language spoken in Lithuania
34,662
views / year
views / year
90
Marathi
Indo-Aryan language
34,637
views / year
views / year
91
Kazakh
Turkic language in Central Asia, state language of Kazakhstan
34,598
views / year
views / year
92
Serbian
standardized variety of Serbo-Croatian language used by Serbs
34,328
views / year
views / year
93
Quechua
language family spoken primarily in the Andes region of South America
34,234
views / year
views / year
94
Belarusian
East Slavic language
34,158
views / year
views / year
95
Jamaican Patois
English-based creole spoken in and around Jamaica; it additionally takes influence from various African languages, parti
34,113
views / year
views / year
96
Burmese
Sino-Tibetan language of Myanmar
33,911
views / year
views / year
97
Icelandic
North Germanic language mainly spoken in Iceland
33,822
views / year
views / year
98
Azerbaijani
Oghuz Turkic language
33,584
views / year
views / year
99
Khmer
Austroasiatic language of Cambodia
33,264
views / year
views / year
100
Serbo-Croatian
South Slavic language
32,711
views / year
views / year