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
Dhahran Arabic
Guadalupe, Nuevo León Spanish
Brecon Beacons National Park Authority English via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Brecon Beacons National Park Authority Welsh via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
São Caetano do Sul, Brazil
surface form: São Caetano do Sul
Portuguese
Binh Thuy District Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
FIFA World Player of the Year English
FIFA World Player of the Year French
FIFA World Player of the Year Spanish
FIFA World Player of the Year German
FIFA World Player of the Year Portuguese
Ministry of Culture (Taiwan) Mandarin Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Pain Court French
Solbo Swedish language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Swedish
Åmli Norwegian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sentrum, Oslo Norwegian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tarnów County Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hampstead French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hampstead English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Pierrefonds-Roxboro French
Pierrefonds-Roxboro English
L’Île-Bizard–Sainte-Geneviève French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Pamplona Spanish
Campo Grande Portuguese
Ciudad del Este Spanish
Ciudad del Este Guaraní
Ballerup Danish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sainte-Foy-de-Montgommery French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Nippes Department French
Nippes Department Haitian Creole
Rif region Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguageOfCountry"
Chenoua not an official language of Algeria via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage"
National Assembly of Suriname Dutch via predicate surface "officialLanguageUsed"
Central Bank of Suriname Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bank of the Republic of Haiti French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bank of the Republic of Haiti Haitian Creole via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mayor of Ottawa English
Mayor of Ottawa French
Inca Spanish
Inca Catalan
Udmurtia Russian
Udmurtia Udmurt language
surface form: Udmurt
Batopilas town
surface form: Batopilas
Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
South Tarawa English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
South Tarawa Gilbertese language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Gilbertese
Segovia Spanish
Región de Ñuble Spanish
Moldava nad Bodvou Slovak via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Khargone Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tübingen, Germany
surface form: Tübingen
German