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
Kruununhaka Finnish via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Kruununhaka Swedish via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Suonenjoki Finnish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Masku municipality
surface form: Masku
Finnish
Parainen Finnish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Parainen Swedish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Laitila Finnish
Sauvo Finnish via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Sauvo Finnish via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Koski Tl Finnish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Pyhäranta Finnish
RKP Swedish language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Swedish
RKP Finnish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
ROC government Mandarin Chinese
Radevormwald German
Eskilstuna Swedish via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Álava Spanish
Álava Basque
Montevideo Department Spanish
Hồng Sơn Commune Vietnamese
Illerkirchberg German
Belagavi district Kannada via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Alvito Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese
Vidigueira Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese
Toledo, Spain Spanish
Ballangen, Norway
surface form: Ballangen
Norwegian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Consejo Directivo Central español via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Governor of Meghalaya English
La Croix-Valmer French
Ha'il Region Arabic
Brussels Parliament French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Brussels Parliament Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
National Human Rights Commission
surface form: National Human Rights Commission of India
English
National Human Rights Commission
surface form: National Human Rights Commission of India
Hindi
Delhi Jal Board Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Delhi Jal Board English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Swedish
surface form: Swedish language
Sweden via predicate surface "officialLanguageOf"
Swedish
surface form: Swedish language
Finland via predicate surface "officialLanguageOf"
Senate of Kenya English
Senate of Kenya Kiswahili
Kareli Municipality Georgian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kyzylorda Region Kazakh via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Baltic governorates German via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Baltic governorates Russian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Yuxi Standard Chinese
Greater Vancouver Regional District English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Madawaska County, New Brunswick English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Rogil Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Loreto, Baja California Sur Spanish
Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic Russian