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
State Union of Serbia and Montenegro Albanian
State Union of Serbia and Montenegro Hungarian
Province of Groningen Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kirkland French
Wolfville, Nova Scotia English
Wolfville English
Porter County Circuit Court English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
San Francisco (via Wikimedia Foundation)
surface form: San Francisco
English
Tlaquepaque Spanish
Scyros Greek
Vaasa Finnish
Vaasa Swedish
Sucre, Colombia Spanish
Putumayo Department Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Marulanda Spanish
Nøtterøy Norwegian language
surface form: Norwegian
Region of Southern Denmark Danish
Federal Fiscal Court of Germany German
International Tennis Federation English
Combs-la-Ville French
Somerset Council area English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Government of Ceylon English
Government of Ceylon Sinhala
Government of Ceylon Tamil
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers English
Trois-Rivières French
Styria German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Baranagar Bengali
Baranagar English
Nof HaGalil Hebrew via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Zapatoca Spanish
Haría Spanish
Clifton Heights English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kodiak Island Borough English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Britannia Inferior Latin via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Zwijndrecht Dutch
Orvieto Italian
Sinhala Only policy Sinhala via predicate surface "officialLanguageDeclared"
Liluah Bengali
Belur Bengali
Domjur Bengali via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
New York City Council District 33 English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Military Governor of California English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Military Governor of California Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Governorate of Estonia Russian
Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Extremadura, Spain) Spanish
Municipal Government of Santa Cruz de la Sierra Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Courts of the judicial arrondissement of Eupen German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Fox-Amphoux French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Cajicá Municipality Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"