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
Boliqueime Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Capital Regional District English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
An Tiến Commune Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Stadtkreis Ulm German
Badami Kannada
Palo Filipino via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Palo English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Malesherbes French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Regional District of Nanaimo English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Town of Oppenheim, New York English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Rotuma English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Rotuma Fijian languages via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Fijian
Rotuma Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Böbing German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Nam-gu Korean via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Basirhat Bengali
Basirhat English
McMinn County, Tennessee English
Kurnool Telugu via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Wilrijk Dutch
Deuil-la-Barre French
Anhalt-Bitterfeld German
Shanghai Municipal Emergency Management Bureau Chinese
Ourense Spanish
Ourense Galician
Vijayawada East Telugu
Nissewaard Dutch
Place d’Italie French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Quang Ninh Province Vietnamese
Nairobi County English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Nairobi County Swahili language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Swahili
NBO English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguageEnvironment"
NBO Swahili language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguageEnvironment"
surface form: Swahili
Capital Markets Authority of Kenya English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Capital Markets Authority of Kenya Swahili language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Swahili
government of Botswana English via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfAdministration"
BoB
surface form: Bank of Botswana
English via predicate surface "officialLanguageUsed"
ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Province of Laguna Filipino
Province of Laguna English
Anos Filipino via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Anos English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bagong Silang
surface form: Bagong Silang, Los Baños
Tagalog via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Filipino
Bagong Silang
surface form: Bagong Silang, Los Baños
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bambang
surface form: Bambang, Los Baños
Filipino
Bambang
surface form: Bambang, Los Baños
English
Mayondon Filipino via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mayondon English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Putho-Tuntungin Filipino
Putho-Tuntungin English