officialLanguage

P236
predicate

Indicates that a particular language has been formally designated by an authority as the official language used for government, legal, or administrative purposes in a given jurisdiction.

All labels observed (178)

Label Occurrences
officialLanguage canonical 23,795
hasOfficialLanguage 16,380
languageOfAdministration 2,109

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: officialLanguage
Generated description
Indicates that a particular language has been formally designated by an authority as the official language used for government, legal, or administrative purposes in a given jurisdiction.

Sample triples (46,259)

Subject Object
Limpopo Province isiZulu
Limpopo Province isiXhosa
Second Judicial Circuit of Florida English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
GCC Secretariat General Arabic
EuroBasket Women championship English
EuroBasket Women championship French
EuroBasket Women championship Spanish
Chief of the Defence Staff (Canada) English
Chief of the Defence Staff (Canada) French
Etawah, North-Western Provinces, British India English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Etawah, North-Western Provinces, British India Urdu via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Etawah, North-Western Provinces, British India Hindi via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Accra English
First Republic of Venezuela Spanish
Sokoto State English
Sulaymaniyah Kurdish
Socialist Republic of Croatia Croatian
Socialist Republic of Croatia Serbian
Socialist Republic of Croatia Serbo-Croatian
Durán Spanish
CA Roissy Pays de France French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Internal and Judicial Affairs Committee of the National People's Congress Chinese
Arcot Tamil
Gujranwala Urdu language
surface form: Urdu
Rennes French
Habsburg Spain Spanish
Chiapas Spanish
Lithuanian–Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic Russian
Lithuanian–Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic Lithuanian
Lithuanian–Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic Belarusian
Lancy French
Ferrara Italian
North Governorate Arabic
Guanajuato Spanish
Borno State English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina Serbo-Croatian
Biliran Island Filipino
Biliran Island English
Ponta Delgada Portuguese language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Portuguese
Denfert-Rochereau French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hamar Bokmål via predicate surface "officialLanguageForm"
Count Palatine of the Rhine German via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Diyarbakır Turkish
Robert F. Kennedy Book Award English
OTP
surface form: Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
OTP
surface form: Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court
French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Yobe State English
Socialist Republic of Serbia Serbo-Croatian
Mayagüez, Puerto Rico Spanish