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
Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
First Estate French via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Kazakh SSR Russian
Kazakh SSR Kazakh language
surface form: Kazakh
Carolina Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Carolina English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Verdun French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Verdun English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Government of Albania Albanian language via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
surface form: Albanian
Bayan-Ölgii Province Kazakh
Bayan-Ölgii Province Mongolian
Biberist German
Dornach German
Trimbach German
Wangen bei Olten German
Feldbrunnen-St. Niklaus German
Balm bei Günsberg German
Kammersrohr German
Western India States Agency English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Tumba Swedish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Uttran Swedish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Myrstuguberget Swedish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bréda plantation French via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
French authorities French via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Gerswalde Ortsteil Kaakstedt German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gerswalde Ortsteil Krohnhorst German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Province of Seville Spanish
Komárom-Esztergom County Hungarian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
United States congressional apportionment federal statutes of the United States via predicate surface "languageOfLaw"
Judiciary of Louisiana English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Davao City Filipino
Davao City English
Agder Norwegian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Bedford English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Russian Federation (Dagestan)
surface form: Republic of Dagestan
Russian
Damoh Hindi
UNOCI English
UNOCI French
Government of Côte d’Ivoire French via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfAdministration"
Subcarpathian Voivodeship Sejmik Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
City of Chelsea English
Carthaginian Empire Phoenician language
surface form: Punic language
Paible English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Paible Scottish Gaelic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bone Regency Indonesian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Elverum Bokmål
Lower Silesian Voivodeship Polish
Flag of Honduras Spanish via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfCountry"