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
Lapu-Lapu City Filipino
Lapu-Lapu City English
Dahod Gujarati
Dahod Hindi
Commonwealth of the Philippines English
Commonwealth of the Philippines Spanish
Commonwealth of the Philippines Tagalog
Regional Natural Park of Pyrénées Catalanes French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Matucana Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Municipality of Lima Spanish
West Sumatra Indonesian
Guéckédou Prefecture French via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfCountry"
Meliandou, Guinea
surface form: Meliandou
French via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage"
French Ubangi-Shari French
Flag of French Equatorial Africa French
AEF French
AEF French via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Government of Prussia German
Irish Football Association English
Tubas Arabic
New Jersey State House English via predicate surface "officialLanguageUsed"
Rathaus Zehlendorf German via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialUse"
Casablanca-Settat region
surface form: Casablanca-Settat
Arabic
Casablanca-Settat region
surface form: Casablanca-Settat
Amazigh
Kashgar Standard Chinese
Padang Indonesian
Esquimalt, Canada
surface form: Esquimalt
English
World Association of Zoos and Aquariums English
town of Dewey
surface form: Dewey
Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
town of Dewey
surface form: Dewey
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Trust Territory of Cameroon under British administration English
Nuoro Italian
Pekanbaru Indonesian
Iberia (ancient kingdom) Old Georgian
Grindelwald German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Central African governments French via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Central African governments Portuguese via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Central African governments Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Central African governments English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Fifth Crusade (planning phase) Latin via predicate surface "hasLanguageOfAdministration"
Cork South-Central Dáil constituency
surface form: Cork South-Central
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Cork South-Central Dáil constituency
surface form: Cork South-Central
Irish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Expansion Era Committee English
Ede Dutch
Estado Novo (Portugal) Portuguese
Argyll and Bute English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Italian Libya Italian
Kingdom of Poland Polish
cantonal courts of Valais
surface form: Cantonal courts of Valais
French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
cantonal courts of Valais
surface form: Cantonal courts of Valais
German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"