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
Nunavik Inuktitut
Nunavik French
Nunavik English
Travancore Malayalam
Maseru Sesotho
Maseru English
Beba Arabic
Harstad Norwegian language via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
surface form: Norwegian
Nordland Norwegian language via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
surface form: Norwegian
Troms Norwegian
Nova Gorica Slovene
Gorontalo Indonesian
Kendari Indonesian
Ganja Azerbaijani language
surface form: Azerbaijani
Imperial Russian administrative system Russian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Ihnasya Arabic
Provinces of Pakistan Urdu language via predicate surface "haveOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Urdu
Provinces of Pakistan English via predicate surface "haveOfficialLanguage"
Ankara Metropolitan Municipality Turkish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
L'Ancienne-Lorette, Quebec, Canada
surface form: L'Ancienne-Lorette
French
Los Angeles City Council District 4 English via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialBusiness"
Ministry of National Security of Israel Hebrew via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gmina Sucha Beskidzka Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Town of Krum, Texas English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tashkent Uzbek
Baku Azerbaijani language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Azerbaijani
Georgetown, Guyana English
West African Economic and Monetary Union French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Havasupai Indian Reservation English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Central Sulawesi Indonesian
Mosotho Sesotho via predicate surface "nationalLanguage"
Thimphu Dzongkha
Dzongkha Bhutan via predicate surface "officialLanguageOf"
Dzongkha Bhutan via predicate surface "nationalLanguageOf"
Dzongkha Bhutan via predicate surface "administrativeLanguageOf"
University of Santiago de Compostela Galician
University of Santiago de Compostela Spanish
Congress of Veracruz Spanish
Governor of Iowa English via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfOffice"
Chadians French
Chadians Arabic
Chadians Chadian Arabic via predicate surface "nationalLanguage"
Chadians Sara languages via predicate surface "nationalLanguage"
surface form: Sara language
Los Andes Spanish
Big 12 Championship Game English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
B.League Japanese
Bern, Switzerland
surface form: Bern
German
Bangalore Urban district Kannada
Troms og Finnmark Norwegian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kaliningrad Oblast Russian language
surface form: Russian