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
Mayagüez, Puerto Rico English
Veraguas Province Spanish
Rungis, France
surface form: Rungis
French
Hampton Court English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Dalvey English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bamako French
Abruzzo Italian
Southern Greece Greek via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Province of Guadalajara Spanish
Ramillies French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hualapai Indian Reservation English
Hualapai Indian Reservation Walapai language
surface form: Hualapai language
Coat of arms of Armenia Armenian language via predicate surface "officialLanguageScript"
surface form: Armenian
Plan-les-Ouates French
Collonge-Bellerive French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Palestinian Authority Arabic
Katsina State English
Socialist Republic of Montenegro Serbo-Croatian
Rincón, Puerto Rico Spanish
Rincón, Puerto Rico English
Heraklion Greek
Ouagadougou French
Molise Italian language
surface form: Italian
Regional Government of Lazio Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Arab Maghreb Union Arabic
Arab Maghreb Union French
Alcoutim Portuguese
Primorsky Krai Russian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Department of Parliamentary Services English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hay Shire Council English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Jigawa State English
Horta Portuguese
Chania Greek
Conakry French
Praia Portuguese
Comunidade Intermunicipal do Algarve Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Calicut Malayalam
Castilleja de la Cuesta, Crown of Castile
surface form: Castilleja de la Cuesta
Spanish
Italian Somaliland Italian
Italian Somaliland Somali
Banks of the Danube, Buda Castle Quarter and Andrássy Avenue Hungarian
World Aquatics Championships 2017
surface form: 2017 World Aquatics Championships
English
World Aquatics Championships 2017
surface form: 2017 World Aquatics Championships
Hungarian
German-speaking Switzerland German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguageStatus"
Maputo Portuguese
Assembly of the Republic
surface form: Assembly of the Republic (Mozambique)
Portuguese
Laayoune Arabic
Villa Cisneros Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Telugu via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Urdu language via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
surface form: Urdu