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
Altai Republic Russian
Altai Republic Altai
Hawkesbury, Ontario English
Hawkesbury, Ontario French
Archdeaconry of Huntingdon and Wisbech English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Auburn, Georgia English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Belluno province
surface form: Province of Belluno
Italian
Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Chinese
Hunan provincial government Standard Chinese via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Chief Pleas English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Government of Jersey English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Government of Jersey French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Portbou Catalan
Portbou Spanish
TRNC
surface form: Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
Turkish
Assembly of the Republic Turkish
Economic Cooperation Organization (observer) English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Economic Cooperation Organization (observer) Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Economic Cooperation Organization (observer) Turkish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Krieblowitz Polish via predicate surface "currentOfficialLanguage"
Belagavi Kannada
Royal Lao Government Lao
Lawrence
surface form: Lawrence, Indiana
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Doberdò del Lago Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
North Karelia Finnish
Ha Nam Province Vietnamese
Nagaon district Assamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Chiquinquirá Spanish
Guateque Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Villavicencio Spanish
Decize French
Grande-Terre
surface form: Grande-Terre (Mayotte)
French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Centre national du costume de scène French
Politics of Wales Welsh via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguages"
Politics of Wales English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguages"
Senhadja de Srair language not an official language of Morocco via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage"
Acapulco de Juárez Municipality Spanish
State of Guerrero Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Padang Panjang Indonesian
Lima Puluh Kota Regency Indonesian
Dole, Jura, France French
Los Llanos de Aridane Spanish
Tazacorte Spanish
Granadilla de Abona Spanish
Verden (Aller) German
Rodez French
Drenthe Dutch
Saignelégier French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Heihe Standard Chinese
California courts English