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
ACF
surface form: Administration for Children and Families
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
commune of Granville
surface form: Granville
French
Katwijk Dutch
Bejucal municipality Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Uttarakhand High Court English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Uttarakhand High Court Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
East Malaysia Malay via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Badrashin Markaz Arabic
Badrashin district Arabic
Lagos de Moreno Spanish
Autlán de Navarro Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sancaktepe Turkish
county of New Jersey English via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialBusiness"
Ambon Indonesian
Ambon Indonesian via predicate surface "nationalLanguage"
Quinte West English via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Government of Chhattisgarh Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Daman district Gujarati
Daman district Hindi
Daman district English
Diu district Gujarati
Diu district Hindi
Diu district English
Diu Gujarati
Diu Hindi
Government of Abu Dhabi Arabic
General Civil Aviation Authority of the United Arab Emirates Arabic
Ballari Kannada
Thousand Islands Regency Indonesian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
City of Wodonga English
Puerto Boyacá Spanish
Sabana Centro Province Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Cota, Cundinamarca Spanish
Pará Portuguese
Lambton County English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Jung-gu
surface form: Jung-gu, Daejeon
Korean
Autonomous Region of Bougainville English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Autonomous Region of Bougainville Tok Pisin via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Autonomous Region of Bougainville Hiri Motu via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
UNASUR Spanish
UNASUR Portuguese
UNASUR Dutch
UNASUR English
UNASUR French
UNASUR Indigenous languages
Kara-Khanid Khanate Turkic languages
Nichollstown English
Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada
surface form: Trois-Rivières
French
Isle of Harris English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Isle of Harris Scottish Gaelic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"