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
Southeast Sulawesi Indonesian
Talagante Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Medina-Sidonia Spanish
Municipality of Funchal Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Jewish Yishuv in Mandatory Palestine Hebrew
Kerepakupai Merú Spanish via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage"
1934 British Empire Games English
Baptist World Alliance English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Township of South Glengarry English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Township of South Glengarry French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Township of North Dundas English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Guineans French
Pepel Portuguese via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage"
El Adwah, Sharqia Governorate, Egypt
surface form: El Adwah
Arabic
Serranilla Bank Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Bochnia County Polish
Ibura Portuguese
Big West Conference English
Cap-Haïtien French
Cap-Haïtien Haitian Creole
SuperSport United F.C. English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
SuperSport United F.C. Afrikaans via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
SuperSport United F.C. Zulu via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Siliguri Bengali
Siliguri English
Halisahar Bengali
Mayapur Bengali via predicate surface "stateOfficialLanguage"
Aizawl Mizo language
surface form: Mizo
Aizawl English
San Dorligo della Valle Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
San Dorligo della Valle Slovene via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Choulex French
Later Lê dynasty Classical Chinese
Later Lê dynasty Vietnamese
Ninh Binh Province Vietnamese
Xuan Truong District Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Yavatmal Marathi language
surface form: Marathi
Ragusa (Dubrovnik) Latin
Ragusa (Dubrovnik) Dalmatian
Ragusa (Dubrovnik) Italian
Ragusa (Dubrovnik) Slavic languages
Arroyo Naranjo Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire Russian
Liga MX Femenil Spanish
United States of Indonesia Indonesian
Yala Thai via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ottenstein German
Argentré-du-Plessis French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Zeewolde, Netherlands
surface form: Zeewolde
Dutch
Suqian Standard Chinese