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
Canta Province Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gallura Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Jambi Indonesian
OECD Legal Directorate English via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
OECD Legal Directorate French via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Ate Spanish
WHL playoffs English
Fuenlabrada Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Parla Spanish
Kastoria (regional unit) Greek
Chalchicomula de Sesma Municipality Spanish
European Capital of Culture 2016 Polish
Kranjska Gora Slovene via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Manuʻa District English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Manuʻa District Samoan via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
San Pedro Sula Spanish
Charleroi French
Luxor Governorate Arabic
Krasnogvardeysky District Russian
Alcorcón Spanish
Valdemoro Spanish
Kurukshetra district Hindi
Pathankot Punjabi language
surface form: Punjabi
Qinghai Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Swan, Iowa English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Crans-Montana French
Brig-Glis German
Sierre French
Sierre German
San Lorenzo Acopilco Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Porto Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese
Meensel-Kiezegem Dutch
Country Music Association English
CAN Spanish
state of Morelos, Mexico
surface form: Morelos
Spanish
city of Morelia (renamed in his honor)
surface form: Morelia
Spanish
Ferrol Spanish
Ferrol Galician
Khelvachauri Georgian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Staatsbosbeheer Dutch
Wainwright English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Office of the Languages Commissioner of Nunavut Inuktitut via predicate surface "officialLanguageFocus"
surface form: Inuktut
Office of the Languages Commissioner of Nunavut Inuktitut via predicate surface "officialLanguageFocus"
Office of the Languages Commissioner of Nunavut Inuinnaqtun via predicate surface "officialLanguageFocus"
U.S. Pacific municipal governments English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Vĩnh Long Vietnamese
Sachkhere Georgian
Stoltenhoff Island English via predicate surface "hasLanguageOfAdministration"
Zuid-Holland Dutch
Isles of Scilly English