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
Carbonne French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tetã Paraguái Spanish
Tetã Paraguái Guaraní
Tetã Paraguái Guaraní via predicate surface "nationalLanguage"
office of Führer in Nazi Germany German
Deux-Sèvres department
surface form: Deux-Sèvres
French
Jung District, Daegu Korean
Las Breas Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mekoryuk English
Betapur Hindi
Betapur English
Wavre French
Piombino Italian language
surface form: Italian
Red Lake English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Red Lake French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mladenovac Serbian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Livingston F.C. English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Province of Mayabeque Spanish
Addington Highlands English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Rhodesia English
Alborán Island Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Dean and Chapter of Canterbury English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Irkutsk, Russia
surface form: Irkutsk
Russian language via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
surface form: Russian
Consulate French
Kalipur Hindi via predicate surface "officialLanguageAtCountryLevel"
Kalipur English via predicate surface "officialLanguageAtTerritoryLevel"
Kalipur Hindi via predicate surface "officialLanguageAtTerritoryLevel"
L’Hospitalet de Llobregat Catalan
L’Hospitalet de Llobregat Spanish
Alytus Lithuanian
Pinsk Belarusian
Pinsk Russian
Neustadt an der Weinstraße German
Itapipoca Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese
Aracati Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese
Central-West Region of Brazil Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Chatham, Ontario, Canada English
Cochabamba Department Spanish
Senado
surface form: Senado de España
Spanish
Yami language none via predicate surface "isOfficialLanguageOf"
East Nusa Tenggara Indonesian
Scottish national football teams English via predicate surface "officialLanguageUsed"
Welsh law Welsh via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguages"
Welsh law English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguages"
Perka Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Perka English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Teetop Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Teetop English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Qakh District Azerbaijani language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Azerbaijani