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
Isla de Pascua province
surface form: Isla de Pascua Province
Spanish
Tortola English
Bodø Norwegian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Larkana Sindhi
Larkana Urdu language
surface form: Urdu
Morata de Tajuña Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sasanian Empire Middle Persian language
surface form: Middle Persian
Sasanian Empire Middle Persian language via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
surface form: Middle Persian
Gilaki none via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguageOf"
Azad Jammu and Kashmir Council Urdu via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Yavapai-Apache Nation English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Jamestown English
Jyväskylä Finnish via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Mulhouse French
Forlì Italian
Leuven Dutch via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Patna Hindi
Coquimbo Spanish
Rovinj Croatian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Trenčín Slovak
Assembly of the International Seabed Authority Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Assembly of the International Seabed Authority Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Assembly of the International Seabed Authority English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Assembly of the International Seabed Authority French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Assembly of the International Seabed Authority Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Assembly of the International Seabed Authority Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Greater Toronto Airports Authority English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Greater Toronto Airports Authority French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bureau of Justice Statistics English
Peć Albanian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Peć Serbian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Superior Court of California, County of Tulare English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bømlo Norwegian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kheda district Gujarati
Kheda district Hindi
Guatemala Captaincy General Spanish
Leipzig-Thekla subcamp German via predicate surface "hasLanguageOfAdministration"
Novo-Bayazet uezd Russian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Cork City Council area English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Cork City Council area Irish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Roseau English
President of Dominica English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguageContext"
Beinsdorp Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Meldola Italian
Gurugram Hindi
Elk Grove English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hamadan Persian
Aalter Dutch
Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"