deFactoLanguage
P237
predicate
Indicates that a language is used in practice as the primary or common language in a context, even if it has no official legal status there.
All labels observed (24)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| languageOfUse | 3,442 |
| languageMajority | 1,404 |
| regionalLanguage | 1,011 |
| commonLanguage | 548 |
| hasOfficialLanguageDeFacto | 172 |
| commonLanguages | 67 |
| officialLanguageDeFacto | 63 |
| usedAsLinguaFrancaIn | 62 |
| hasDeFactoLanguage | 34 |
| deFactoLanguage canonical | 28 |
| vernacularLanguage | 23 |
| primaryWorkingLanguage | 9 |
| currentLanguage | 7 |
| usedAsSecondLanguageIn | 7 |
| isLinguaFrancaFor | 3 |
| languageDeFacto | 3 |
| deFactoOfficialLanguage | 2 |
| languageOfficialDeFacto | 2 |
| usedLanguageDeFacto | 2 |
| currentLinguaFranca | 1 |
| deFactoMajorityLanguage | 1 |
| languageUsedDeFacto | 1 |
| usesDeFactoLanguage | 1 |
| שפה רשמית דה-פקטו | 1 |
Description generation (PDg)
The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the predicate name and this instruction.
Instruction
Given a predicate that represents a relationship or action between entities, generate a one-sentence description explaining its meaning. # Instructions Focus on describing the relationship, not the entities themselves. # Response Format Begin the description with \' Indicates...\'
Input
Predicate: deFactoLanguage
Generated description
Indicates that a language is used in practice as the primary or common language in a context, even if it has no official legal status there.
Sample triples (6,894)
| Subject | Object |
|---|---|
| Alleyne | English via predicate surface "languageOfUse" ⓘ |
| Fatou | Wolof via predicate surface "languageOfUse" ⓘ |
| Fatou | Senegalese languages via predicate surface "languageOfUse" ⓘ |
| Tatjana | German via predicate surface "languageOfUse" ⓘ |
| Tatjana | Serbo-Croatian via predicate surface "languageOfUse" ⓘ |
| Tatjana | Slovene via predicate surface "languageOfUse" ⓘ |
| Tatjana | Latvian via predicate surface "languageOfUse" ⓘ |
| Tatjana | Estonian via predicate surface "languageOfUse" ⓘ |
| Tatjana | Lithuanian via predicate surface "languageOfUse" ⓘ |
| Tania | English via predicate surface "languageOfUse" ⓘ |
| Tania | Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfUse" ⓘ |
| Tania | Portuguese via predicate surface "languageOfUse" ⓘ |
| Tania | Italian via predicate surface "languageOfUse" ⓘ |
| Tania | French via predicate surface "languageOfUse" ⓘ |
| Tania | Russian via predicate surface "languageOfUse" ⓘ |
| Hailee | English via predicate surface "languageOfUse" ⓘ |
| Elberta, Alabama | English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguageDeFacto" ⓘ |
| Altavista, Virginia | English via predicate surface "languageMajority" ⓘ |
| City of Boca Raton, Florida | English via predicate surface "languageMajority" ⓘ |
| John Hastings, 2nd Earl of Pembroke | Middle English via predicate surface "languageOfUse" ⓘ |
| Henrietta, Lady Hyde | English via predicate surface "languageOfUse" ⓘ |
| Afgooye District | Arabic via predicate surface "hasDeFactoLanguage" ⓘ |
| Duchy of Kraków | Polish via predicate surface "commonLanguage" ⓘ |
| City of Spices | English via predicate surface "languageOfUse" ⓘ |
| Joy Sexton | English via predicate surface "languageOfUse" ⓘ |
| Doro | English via predicate surface "languageOfUse" ⓘ |
| Dorinda | English via predicate surface "languageOfUse" ⓘ |
| Dorabella | English via predicate surface "languageOfUse" ⓘ |
| The Iron Islands | Common Tongue via predicate surface "regionalLanguage" ⓘ |
| Grzymisława of Łuck | Old Polish via predicate surface "languageOfUse" ⓘ |
| Grzymisława of Łuck | Ruthenian via predicate surface "languageOfUse" ⓘ |
| Askari Mirza | Persian via predicate surface "languageOfUse" ⓘ |
| Askari Mirza | Chagatai Turkic via predicate surface "languageOfUse" ⓘ |
| Ballinshoe | Scots via predicate surface "regionalLanguage" ⓘ |
| Ballinshoe | Scottish Gaelic via predicate surface "regionalLanguage" ⓘ |
| Imre Molnár | Hungarian via predicate surface "languageOfUse" ⓘ |
| Smara | Hassaniya Arabic via predicate surface "commonLanguage" ⓘ |
| Ke | Vietnamese via predicate surface "languageOfUse" ⓘ |
| Ke | Chinese via predicate surface "languageOfUse" ⓘ |
| Elin |
Swedish language
via predicate surface "languageOfUse"
ⓘ
surface form:
Swedish
|
| Elin | Norwegian via predicate surface "languageOfUse" ⓘ |
| Elin | Danish via predicate surface "languageOfUse" ⓘ |
| Elin | Icelandic via predicate surface "languageOfUse" ⓘ |
| Elin | Finnish via predicate surface "languageOfUse" ⓘ |
| Craige | English via predicate surface "languageOfUse" ⓘ |
| Piasts of Rawa Mazowiecka | Polish via predicate surface "languageOfUse" ⓘ |
| Piasts of Rawa Mazowiecka | Latin via predicate surface "languageOfUse" ⓘ |
| Manama | Arabic via predicate surface "commonLanguage" ⓘ |
| Duchess of Brittany | Breton via predicate surface "languageOfUse" ⓘ |
| Duchess of Brittany | French via predicate surface "languageOfUse" ⓘ |