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
Søre Ål Norwegian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
County of Peterborough English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Alna district Norwegian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
President of the People's Court German
Tilos Greek
Lipsi Greek via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ängelholm Swedish language
surface form: Swedish
MSG English
MSG French
MSG Bislama
Office of the Lieutenant Governor of Georgia English (de facto) via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Porto Azzurro Italian
European Turkey Turkish
Congress of New Caledonia French
President of the Republic of Texas English via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfOffice"
National Inventors Hall of Fame English via predicate surface "official language"
municipality of Grave Dutch
Cree Nation Government Cree
Cree Nation Government English
Cree Nation Government French
Frontenac County (census division) English
Tajik language Tajikistan via predicate surface "officialLanguageOf"
Embassy of Finland in Washington, D.C. Finnish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Embassy of Finland in Washington, D.C. Swedish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Embassy of Pakistan in Washington, D.C. English
Embassy of Pakistan in Washington, D.C. Urdu
New Brunswick English
New Brunswick French
Naraina Hindi
Naraina English
Eaux-Vives district French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gandhinagar district Gujarati via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gandhinagar district Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Khasavyurt Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint-Jérôme–Mont-Laurier French via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
County Tyrone English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Achern German
Badung Regency Indonesian
Baksan Russian
Kielce County Polish
U.S. Mission to NATO English
Ibiza, Biodiversity and Culture Spanish via predicate surface "hasLanguageOfAdministration"
Ibiza, Biodiversity and Culture Catalan via predicate surface "hasLanguageOfAdministration"
Sant Antoni de Portmany Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sant Antoni de Portmany Catalan via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Island Council of Ibiza Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Island Council of Ibiza Catalan via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Piazza Maggiore Italian via predicate surface "officialLanguageUsed"
Marianao, Havana, Cuba
surface form: Marianao
Spanish
Saaremaa municipality formed in 2017
surface form: Saaremaa municipality
Estonian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"