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
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany German
Seis am Schlern German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Seis am Schlern Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sgonico Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Montenegro and the Littoral (Serbian Orthodox Church eparchy)
surface form: Montenegro and the Littoral
Serbian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Samokov Bulgarian language
surface form: Bulgarian
Meinier French
Presinge French
Hexi District Chinese
Government of West Bengal Bengali via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfAdministration"
Government of West Bengal English via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfAdministration"
Presidency of Fort St. George English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Secretariat building, Fort St. George Tamil via predicate surface "hasLanguageOfAdministration"
Secretariat building, Fort St. George English via predicate surface "hasLanguageOfAdministration"
Nayak rulers of Madurai Tamil via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Nayak rulers of Madurai Telugu via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Union of Rajasthan princely states Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Union of Rajasthan princely states English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Fontenay-aux-Roses French
Rothenburg ob der Tauber German
Akola Marathi language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Marathi
Saint-Léonard French
Suseong District Korean via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Nordic Council of Ministers Danish
Nordic Council of Ministers Norwegian
Nordic Council of Ministers Swedish
Nordic Council of Ministers Icelandic
Nordic Council of Ministers Finnish
Nordic Council of Ministers Faroese language
surface form: Faroese
Nordic Council of Ministers Greenlandic
Nordic Council of Ministers Sami languages
Nordic Council of Ministers English
Odanak First Nation French
Spiekeroog German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Reichskommissariat Niederlande German
Reichskommissariat Niederlande Dutch
La Paz Spanish
Sector 4 Romanian language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Romanian
Les Tuileries French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bösebrücke German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Langendorf German
Tekirdağ Province Turkish
Mahé Malayalam
Mahé English
Bhubaneswar Odia
Bhubaneswar English
Lilongwe English
Andorra la Vella Catalan
Constitution of Andorra Catalan via predicate surface "establishesOfficialLanguage"
World Nuclear Association English