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
Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' Church Slavonic
Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' Russian
Nuuk Kalaallisut
surface form: Greenlandic
Nuuk Danish
National Congress of Honduras Spanish
Río Blanco, Veracruz Spanish
Asmara Tigrinya via predicate surface "officialLanguageInUse"
Asmara Arabic via predicate surface "officialLanguageInUse"
Asmara English via predicate surface "officialLanguageInUse"
Nicobar Islands Hindi
Nicobar Islands English
Groupe d’action financière English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Groupe d’action financière French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
GAFI English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
GAFI French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bombay Parsi Punchayet English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Bombay Parsi Punchayet Gujarati via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Allied Joint Force Command Norfolk English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Allied Joint Force Command Norfolk French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Shusha uezd Russian via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Supai, Arizona English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tamworth Regional Council area English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ecclesiastical Latin Holy See via predicate surface "officialLanguageOf"
Ecclesiastical Latin Roman Rite via predicate surface "officialLanguageOf"
surface form: Roman Rite of the Catholic Church
Retiro Spanish
Chandannagar Bengali
Chandannagar English
Valle de Chalco Solidaridad Spanish
Santiago de Compostela Galician
Santiago de Compostela Spanish
Ghaznavid Empire Persian
Culebra, Puerto Rico Spanish
Culebra, Puerto Rico English
Madison County Board of County Commissioners English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Government of Iraq Arabic
Government of Iraq Kurdish
San Juan municipality Spanish
San Juan municipality English
Caprese
surface form: Caprese Michelangelo
Italian
Central Bank of Tunisia Arabic
Central Bank of Tunisia French
Old Montreal French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Old Montreal English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Court of Tax Appeals of the Philippines English
Court of Tax Appeals of the Philippines Filipino
International Whaling Commission English
International Union of Geological Sciences English
Quetzaltenango Spanish
Czech Parliament Czech
Faridabad district Hindi