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
Eastern Indo-Aryan languages West Bengal via predicate surface "usedAsOfficialLanguageIn"
surface form: Indian state of West Bengal
Eastern Indo-Aryan languages Assam via predicate surface "usedAsOfficialLanguageIn"
surface form: Indian state of Assam
Eastern Indo-Aryan languages Indian state of Odisha via predicate surface "usedAsOfficialLanguageIn"
Eastern Indo-Aryan languages Bihar via predicate surface "usedAsOfficialLanguageIn"
surface form: Indian state of Bihar
Eastern Indo-Aryan languages Indian state of Jharkhand via predicate surface "usedAsOfficialLanguageIn"
Eastern Indo-Aryan languages Indian state of Chhattisgarh via predicate surface "usedAsOfficialLanguageIn"
Rakovica Serbian language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Serbian
Joint Defence Council of the Arab League Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mongol Empire Classical Mongolian script
surface form: Classical Mongolian
Canada East French
Jalgaon district Marathi language
surface form: Marathi
municipality of Spijkenisse Dutch
Canton of Ticino Italian
Duchy of Jülich German
Duchy of Jülich Latin
Taizhou Standard Chinese
Society Islands French
Walsrode German
Migdal HaEmek Hebrew via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
French Flanders French via predicate surface "currentOfficialLanguage"
Lillesand Norwegian language
surface form: Norwegian
Kingdom of Sweden Swedish language
surface form: Swedish
Kingdom of Sweden Swedish via predicate surface "nationalLanguage"
Tikamgarh Hindi
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Pashto language
surface form: Pashto
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Dari
Estepona Spanish
Autlán de Navarro, Jalisco, Mexico
surface form: Autlán de Navarro
Spanish
Iraqi Police Arabic
Iraqi Police Kurdish
Tuvaluan language Tuvalu via predicate surface "isOfficialLanguageOf"
Soviet Academy of Sciences Russian
Waimakariri District English via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Waimakariri District Māori via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Belmont, California English
Le Locle, Switzerland
surface form: Le Locle
French
Austro-Hungarian Empire German
Austro-Hungarian Empire Hungarian language
surface form: Hungarian
Enugu State English
Streymoy Faroese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Streymoy Danish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
OEI Spanish
OEI Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese
Seat of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers Italian via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialUse"
Batanes Islands Filipino
Batanes Islands English
Sagene district Norwegian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Flumenthal German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Albacete Spanish
Es Mercadal Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"