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
Viktoria-Luise-Platz German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Colón Province Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
St. John’s English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Trust Territory of Togoland under French administration French
IHO Assembly English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
IHO Assembly French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
IHO Assembly Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Northern Province, Sri Lanka Tamil
Northern Province, Sri Lanka Sinhala
Northern Province, Sri Lanka Tamil via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Audun-le-Tiche French
Indiana Senate English via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfProceedings"
Bandar Lampung Indonesian
Khomas Region English
South Bačka District Serbian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Swedish Royal Court Swedish
Trust Territory of Togoland under British administration English
Vračar Serbian language
surface form: Serbian
Government of Guatemala Spanish via predicate surface "officialLanguageForAdministration"
SPC
surface form: Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China
Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Constitutional Court
surface form: Constitutional Court (Portugal)
Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
World Athletics English
World Athletics French
Communauté d'agglomération Roissy Pays de France French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Terra Alta Catalan
Terra Alta Spanish
Intermediate People's Courts Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
La Chaux-de-Fonds French
St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands English
Prešov Slovak
Westminster City Council English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Velsen Dutch
Messina Italian
Gjøvik Norwegian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Mathematical Association of America English
Heumen Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ornex French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Fès-Meknès Arabic
Fès-Meknès Amazigh
Congress of the Republic of Guatemala Spanish
Cabinet of the Philippines Filipino
Cabinet of the Philippines English
Landtag of Hesse German
Masvingo Province English
Tarlac Filipino
Tarlac English
Armed Forces of Kazakhstan Kazakh via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfNativeName"
Armed Forces of Kazakhstan Russian via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfNativeName"
Mistelfeld German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gilgit Urdu language
surface form: Urdu