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
Epifansky Uyezd Russian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Saint-Amand-Montrond French
Obock Region Arabic
Obock Region French
Obock Region Somali via predicate surface "nationalLanguage"
Obock Region Afar via predicate surface "nationalLanguage"
Đại Nghĩa Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Chương Mỹ District Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
An Mỹ Commune Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Government of Mali French
Ehrenstein German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Erbach (Donau) German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Munderkingen German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Allmendingen German
Polish government of Wincenty Witos Polish via predicate surface "languageOfGovernment"
Kingisepp Russian
North Delhi Hindi
North Delhi English
Group on Earth Observations English
European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites English
MVRD English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
MVRD French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Township of Langley English
Weihsien Internment Camp Japanese via predicate surface "hasLanguageOfAdministration"
2000 World Figure Skating Championships English
2000 World Figure Skating Championships French
Serbian Despotate Serbian
Pannonia Secunda Latin via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Annexation of Venetia Italian via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialActs"
Paracuellos de Jarama Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kelmis German
Governance Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
2003 World Figure Skating Championships English
2003 World Figure Skating Championships French
Langford English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Perak State Legislative Assembly Malay via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sandomierz Polish
Bongaon Bengali
Bongaon English
North Maluku Province Indonesian
Coupvray French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tinajo Spanish
A Coruña Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
A Coruña Galician via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Panquehue Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sorgues French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hsinchu, Taiwan
surface form: Hsinchu
Mandarin Chinese
Oceania Newspeak
Airstrip One Newspeak
Yichang Municipal People's Government Standard Chinese