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
gmina: Gmina Skawina
surface form: Gmina Skawina
Polish via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Gmina Skawina Polish
Arrah Municipal Corporation Hindi via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Garding German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Government of Honduras Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Parliament of Åland Swedish
Eriskay (linked by causeway)
surface form: Eriskay
Scottish Gaelic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Best Dutch
Loon op Zand Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bladel Dutch
Writing and Language English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Trinidad English
Emirate of Dubai Arabic
Count Palatine of Zweibrücken German via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Ottoman Syria Ottoman Turkish
Tokyo Metropolitan Government Japanese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
UNU
surface form: United Nations University
English
UNU
surface form: United Nations University
Japanese
Summerside English
Capel English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Swati language Eswatini via predicate surface "officialLanguageOf"
Swati language South Africa via predicate surface "coOfficialLanguageOf"
Akure English
Colombo Municipal Council area Sinhala via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Colombo Municipal Council area Tamil via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
OIF
surface form: Organisation internationale de la Francophonie
French
Antananarivo Malagasy
Antananarivo French
Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations English
Bureau of Counterterrorism English
Bradford West Gwillimbury English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Huesca province Spanish
northeastern Portugal
surface form: Northeastern Portugal
Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Haute-Marne French
Pinedale, Wyoming English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Marathwada Marathi language
surface form: Marathi
Río Bueno Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
OFC Champions League English
coastal Karnataka
surface form: Coastal Karnataka
Kannada
Hillah, Iraq
surface form: Hillah
Arabic
College van Beroep voor het bedrijfsleven Dutch
Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel, Quebec, Canada French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gmina Trzebinia Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Amritsar district Punjabi language
surface form: Punjabi
Sleman Regency Indonesian
Oxford County, Ontario English
Novodevichy Convent Russian
Savigliano Italian
Bellach German
Douala French