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
Haubourdin French
Gallia Belgica Latin via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Dois Unidos Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bongi Portuguese
Alirajpur district Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia Czech
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia German
Leeuwarden Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Leeuwarden West Frisian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bishopric of Eindhoven Middle Dutch via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Urbino Italian language
surface form: Italian
République et Canton du Jura French
U.S. Pacific commonwealths English (for most members) via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Flag of Saint Kitts and Nevis English via predicate surface "officialLanguageCountry"
Ma'alot-Tarshiha Hebrew via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ma'alot-Tarshiha Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Government of Saudi Arabia Arabic
Son Tinh District Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Dhaka District Bengali
Renfrew County English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Niederbipp German
Timor Tengah Selatan Regency Indonesian
Kirkwall English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Malbork Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Callao Region Spanish
Constitutional Province of Callao Spanish
Herceg Novi Montenegrin
Nykvarn Municipality Swedish
Capitale-Nationale French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Réunion Creole no sovereign state via predicate surface "officialLanguageIn"
Koningslo Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
CARICOM Implementation Agency for Crime and Security English
Senneville French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Senneville English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Wabush English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ayodhya division Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Naihati Bengali
Metropolitan City of Genoa Italian
Liège French
Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kaykhusraw II Persian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Kaykhusraw II Arabic via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Saint-Denis French
Zemst Dutch
Miercurea Ciuc Romanian
Jagüey Grande Spanish
Charlemagne, Quebec, Canada French
American Zoetrope English
Upper East Region English
Eastern Indo-Aryan languages People's Republic of Bangladesh (from East Pakistan) via predicate surface "usedAsOfficialLanguageIn"
surface form: Bangladesh