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
Juba English
Interlaken German
Smolensk Oblast Russian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Montauban French
Dominion of South Africa English
Dominion of South Africa Dutch
Dominion of South Africa Afrikaans
Bourg-la-Reine French
Marquesas Islands French
Federated Malay States English
North Aegean region Greek
Schaan German
Malaita Province English
Beers Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Velp (NB) Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Middelaar Dutch
Land van Cuijk Dutch
Argostoli Greek
Bacolod Filipino
Bacolod English
Vorarlberg German
Silla Korean
surface form: Old Korean
N'Djamena French
N'Djamena Arabic
Mughal Subah of Bengal Persian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Grodno Governorate Russian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
AdE
surface form: Akademio de Esperanto
Esperanto
Government of the Kingdom of Scotland Latin via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Government of the Kingdom of Scotland Scots via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Mons French
Rio Grande County, Colorado English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Thun German
General Carrera Province Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Viimsi Parish Estonian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Rae Parish Estonian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Commission des Titres d'Ingénieur French
Greater London Council English
Kingdom of Egypt Arabic
St. Mary Parish, Jamaica English
Makah Reservation English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Coedffranc North English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Coedffranc North Welsh via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Regional Council of Aosta Valley Italian
Regional Council of Aosta Valley French
Adigeni Georgian language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Georgian
Vidarbha region
surface form: Vidarbha
Marathi
Vidisha Hindi
Sehore Hindi
Electorate of Brandenburg German
Karshi Uzbek