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
Skien Norwegian language via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
surface form: Norwegian
Harku Parish Estonian
Mustamäe Estonian
Wanroij Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
SHCJ
surface form: Society of the Holy Child Jesus
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Prangins French
Latin American Integration Association Spanish
Latin American Integration Association Portuguese
Latin American Integration Association English
Isère department
surface form: Isère
French
Republic of Adygea Russian
Republic of Adygea Adyghe
Heilongjiang Standard Chinese
Obluchye Russian via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfCountry"
Khandwa Hindi
Singrauli Hindi
Dungog Shire Council area English
Anjou French
Certaldo Italian
Königsbronn German
Kingdom of Armenia Classical Armenian
Temotu Province English
East Bengal and Assam English
East Bengal and Assam English via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
East Bengal and Assam Bengali via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
East Bengal and Assam Assamese via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Betzdorf, Luxembourg Luxembourgish
Betzdorf, Luxembourg French
Betzdorf, Luxembourg German
Waldfriedhof Stuttgart German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Presidency of the Portuguese Republic Portuguese
Syrian government Arabic
Canada Council for the Arts English
Canada Council for the Arts French
Arequipa Region Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ischgl German
Tacloban Filipino
Tacloban English
Bratislava Region Slovak language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Slovak
Møre og Romsdal Norwegian
Kherson Oblast Ukrainian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Barbuda English
Bolpur subdivision Bengali via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bolpur subdivision English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
five boroughs of New York City English (de facto) via predicate surface "haveOfficialLanguage"
Tianeti Georgian language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Georgian
Porto Alegre Portuguese
Colmenar Viejo Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hirshabelle Somali
Hirshabelle Arabic