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
Port Erin Manx via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Saint-Laurent French
Lachine French
LaSalle French
LaSalle English
Saint-Laurent Borough French
Saint-Laurent Borough English
Sud-Ouest French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sud-Ouest English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Porrentruy French
Basse-Terre French
Kyiv Oblast Ukrainian
Rehovot Hebrew
Namangan Uzbek
Neuquén Province Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hadrianopolis Latin via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Hadrianopolis Greek via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Vaduz German
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada English
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada French
Varennes-en-Argonne French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Dolavon Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Città di Castello Italian
Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic Armenian language
surface form: Armenian
Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic Russian
Yorkton English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Collado Villalba Spanish
Bishopric of Rotterdam Latin via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hallonbergen Swedish language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Swedish
Government of South Sudan English
Anglican authorities English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Baarn Dutch
Congress of Tucumán Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Placetas Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Southern Federal District of Russia Russian
Dargin Russian Federation (Dagestan) via predicate surface "isOfficialLanguageIn"
surface form: Republic of Dagestan
Tabasaran Tabasaran District via predicate surface "isOfficialLanguageIn"
Tabasarans Tabasaran District via predicate surface "usesLanguageOfficiallyIn"
Hsinking Japanese
Hsinking Chinese
Herbrechtingen German
Ruoms French
English Commonwealth English
Rupnagar Punjabi language
surface form: Punjabi
Ambala district Hindi via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Porbandar district Gujarati via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Porbandar district Hindi via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Secretariat of the World Health Organization Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Secretariat of the World Health Organization Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Secretariat of the World Health Organization English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"