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
Mazandaran Province Persian
Laguna Tagalog
surface form: Filipino
Laguna English
Pateros Filipino via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Pateros English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Defender of Ukraine Day Ukrainian
Namur Province French
Roquebrune-Cap-Martin French
Minas Gerais Portuguese
Omsk Russian
Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia Armenian via predicate surface "primaryLanguageOfAdministration"
Guéret French
Sheshatshiu English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Monghyr Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Monghyr Urdu language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Urdu
Karbi Anglong district of Assam
surface form: Karbi Anglong district
Assamese
Tjøme Norwegian language via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
surface form: Norwegian
Haldenstein German
Narita International Airport Corporation Japanese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Six Ministries Classical Chinese via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Fuentealbilla Spanish
Bitra village Malayalam via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bitra village English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Lluchmajor, Mallorca, Spain
surface form: Lluchmajor
Spanish
Lluchmajor, Mallorca, Spain
surface form: Lluchmajor
Catalan
Jember Indonesian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Jhargram Bengali
Jhargram English
Chiang Mai Province Thai
Municipality of Montemorelos Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Symi Greek
Naumburg (Saale) German
Sliedrecht Dutch
Neustadt an der Aisch German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Province of Toledo Spanish
Amini tehsil Malayalam via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Amini tehsil English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mosquera Municipality Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
International Visegrad Fund English
International Visegrad Fund Czech
International Visegrad Fund Hungarian
International Visegrad Fund Polish
International Visegrad Fund Slovak
Banjar Hindi
Vijayawada Municipal Corporation Telugu via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Petorca Spanish
Putaendo Spanish (Chile) via predicate surface "nationalLanguage"
Santa María Spanish
Catemu Spanish
Alexinsky Uyezd Russian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"