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
Gulshanabad (Medak) division Urdu language via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
surface form: Urdu
Gulshanabad (Medak) division Telugu via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Government of the Falkland Islands English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Karwar Kannada
Balochistan, Pakistan Urdu language
surface form: Urdu
Kežmarok Slovak
Stetten German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mingorrubio Cemetery Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfLocalAdministration"
Ministry of Public Works of Bermuda English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Municipality of Punta Arenas Spanish
Ballhausplatz German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hedmark Norwegian language
surface form: Norwegian
General Secretariat of SICA Spanish
Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium French
Riffa Arabic
Expo 2017 Kazakh language
surface form: Kazakh
Expo 2017 Russian
Expo 2017 English
Grazzano Monferrato Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Morena Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mandsaur Hindi
Katni Hindi
South Andaman district Hindi
South Andaman district English
South Andaman district Bengali
South Andaman district Tamil
South Andaman district Telugu
South Andaman district Nicobarese
Bnei Brak Hebrew
Wasauksing First Nation English
Tarvisio Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
São Vicente Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese
Mürren German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ulysses
surface form: Ulysses, New York
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Vatican Photographic Service Italian
Vatican Photographic Service Latin
Vatican Photographic Service English
Pozuelo de Alarcón Spanish
Somaliland Somali
Somaliland Arabic
Jerusalem District Hebrew
Jerusalem District Arabic
Benelux Secretariat-General Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Benelux Secretariat-General French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Benelux Secretariat-General German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Central Province of Sri Lanka Sinhala
Central Province of Sri Lanka Tamil
Modoc County, California English
Eisenstadt German
Yauyos Province Spanish