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
Kharkiv Oblast Ukrainian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Grazzano Badoglio Italian
Bhind Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Villanueva de la Serena Spanish
French Southern and Antarctic Lands French
Tagbilaran Tagalog
surface form: Filipino
Tagbilaran English
South Kivu French
South Kivu Swahili via predicate surface "nationalLanguage"
Daugavpils Latvian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
OLG Nürnberg German
Toberín neighborhood Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Nõmme Estonian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Goryeo Korean
Berbera Somali
Sylhet Bengali
Viry-Châtillon French
Niederalm German
Neues Rathaus
surface form: Neues Rathaus (Munich)
German via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfAdministration"
Chinandega, Nicaragua Spanish
Locarno Italian
Necoclí Spanish
Municipality of Turbo Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Segovia Province Spanish
Magadan Oblast Russian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
San Pedro de la Paz Spanish
Campo nell’Elba Italian
DRV
surface form: Democratic Republic of Vietnam
Vietnamese
Guam Visitors Bureau English
Guam Visitors Bureau Chamorro
United States Navy administration of Guam English
Province Sud French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
ACP Group English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
ACP Group French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
ACP Group Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
ACP Group Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Government of Indonesia Indonesian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
surface form: Indonesian language
South African Republic Dutch
Deutsch-Wagram German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Stockholm County Council Swedish
Christian Democratic Party (Norway) Norwegian
Ujjain Hindi
Khenifra Arabic
Valkenburg Dutch
Vierpolders Dutch
Vice President of the Interim Administration of Afghanistan Dari via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialBusiness"
Vice President of the Interim Administration of Afghanistan Pashto via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialBusiness"
Yap Islands English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Yap Islands Yapese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Dendermonde Dutch