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
Central Kalimantan Indonesian
Reserve Bank of Rhodesia English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sromowce Wyżne Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Jamnagar district Gujarati
Pau-Ferro Portuguese
João Pessoa Portuguese
Daehan Minguk Korean
Daehan Minguk Korean via predicate surface "nationalLanguage"
Government of Iceland Icelandic via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
flag of Romania Romanian language via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfDescription"
surface form: Romanian
Statesville City Council English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Orcines French
Palmeira dos Índios Portuguese
Santana do Ipanema Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese
Marechal Deodoro Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Attawapiskat First Nation Cree via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Attawapiskat First Nation English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Crateús Portuguese
Limoeiro do Norte Portuguese
Central Civil Services of India English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Central Civil Services of India Hindi via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Karbala Governorate Arabic
Los Palacios Spanish
La Sarraz, Switzerland
surface form: La Sarraz
French
Arima English
National Court of Justice of Ecuador Spanish
Reggio Calabria Italian
Bishopric of Roosendaal Latin via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Perpignan Méditerranée Métropole French
PRC
surface form: Postal Regulatory Commission
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kingdom of Norway Norwegian
Kingdom of Norway Bokmål
surface form: Norwegian Bokmål
Kingdom of Norway Nynorsk
surface form: Norwegian Nynorsk
Kingdom of Norway Norwegian language via predicate surface "nationalLanguage"
surface form: Norwegian
Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic Russian
Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic Belarusian
Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic Russian via predicate surface "hadAdministrativeLanguage"
Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic Belarusian via predicate surface "hadAdministrativeLanguage"
Kazimierza County Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ayodhya Municipal Corporation Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Junín
surface form: Junín Region
Spanish
Council of Latin American Bishops’ Conferences (CELAM)
surface form: Council of Latin American Bishops’ Conferences
Spanish
Luis Muñoz Marín Park, San Juan, Puerto Rico
surface form: Luis Muñoz Marín Park
Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguageContext"
Executive Committee of the Pan American Health Organization English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Executive Committee of the Pan American Health Organization Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Executive Committee of the Pan American Health Organization French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Executive Committee of the Pan American Health Organization Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Lom, Norway Norwegian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Løgting Faroese language
surface form: Faroese
Løgting Danish