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
diocese of the Gauls
surface form: Diocese of the Gauls
Latin via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Financial Consumer Agency of Canada English
Financial Consumer Agency of Canada French
China women's national basketball team Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Badalona Catalan
Badalona Spanish
Volta Region English
surface form: English language
Amritsar Municipal Corporation Punjabi via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Amritsar Municipal Corporation English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Government of Bolivia Spanish
Government of Bolivia Aymara via predicate surface "recognizedOfficialLanguages"
Government of Bolivia Quechua via predicate surface "recognizedOfficialLanguages"
Government of Bolivia Guaraní via predicate surface "recognizedOfficialLanguages"
Mato Grosso do Sul Portuguese
Royal Mint of Potosí Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Cachapoal Province Spanish
Shivpuri Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Nueva Galicia Spanish
Cuenca Spanish
Klaten Regency Indonesian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Lucknow district Hindi
Klungkung Regency Indonesian language
Sancti Spíritus Spanish
Oslo county Norwegian language
surface form: Norwegian
Fars Persian
Diez de Octubre municipality Spanish
Qiaokou District Standard Chinese
Nukuʻalofa Tonga
surface form: Tongan
Nukuʻalofa English
Port Vila Bislama
Port Vila English
Port Vila French
Amreya Arabic
Salem Tamil
Tatar ASSR Russian
Tatar ASSR Tatar language
surface form: Tatar
Birbhum district Bengali
Karlsruhe district (Landkreis Karlsruhe) administration
surface form: Karlsruhe district administration
German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Federal Constitutional Court building German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguageOfProceedings"
Hochsauerlandkreis German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tilburg Dutch
Bishopric of Goes Latin via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ligurian Republic Italian
Ligurian Republic Ligurian
San Miguel district, Lima Spanish
São Tomé Portuguese
WBG
surface form: World Bank Group
English
Junta de Andalucía Spanish
Lusiana Italian
Dollard-des-Ormeaux French