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
Moordrecht Dutch
Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine
surface form: Khmelnytskyi
Ukrainian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Port Hueneme English
Moroni Comorian
Moroni Arabic
Moroni French
Bacavi English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Aracaju Portuguese
Zamárdi Hungarian
Thiruchendur Tamil via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tiruchirappalli district Tamil
Kamrup Metropolitan district Assamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kamrup Metropolitan district English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
IK-6 penal colony, Melekhovo Russian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Buis-les-Baronnies French
Germany and Belgium
surface form: Germany
German
Germany and Belgium
surface form: Belgium
Dutch
Germany and Belgium
surface form: Belgium
French
Germany and Belgium
surface form: Belgium
German
Katrineholm Swedish
Dalseo District Korean via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Dalseong County Korean
Cornillon French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Cornillon Haitian Creole via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Breña Alta Spanish
Monrupino Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Monrupino Slovene via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sofia Province Bulgarian
South Karelia Finnish
Khulays Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Braga Portuguese
Wangerooge German
Tlajomulco de Zúñiga Spanish
Dizengoff Square Hebrew via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguageEnvironment"
Tunja Spanish
Sogamoso Spanish
Vichada Department Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Acacías Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Chía Municipality Spanish
Cota Spanish
Subachoque Spanish
Bojacá Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
St Andrews, New Zealand English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
St Andrews, New Zealand Māori via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mamoudzou French
Dong-gu
surface form: Dong-gu, Daejeon
Korean via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Malang Regency Indonesian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Taivalkoski Finnish language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Finnish
Richwood, Ohio, United States
surface form: Richwood, Ohio
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
European Society of Radiology English