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
Dịch Vọng Ward Vietnamese
Dịch Vọng Hậu Ward Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Nghĩa Đô Ward Vietnamese
Giang Biên Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ngọc Thụy Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Phúc Lợi Vietnamese
CONCACAF club competition system English via predicate surface "primaryLanguageOfAdministration"
CONCACAF club competition system Spanish via predicate surface "primaryLanguageOfAdministration"
CONCACAF club competition system French via predicate surface "primaryLanguageOfAdministration"
Kita-ku, Sapporo Japanese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Koutiala French via predicate surface "officialLanguageUsed"
Zhongxiang County-level city
surface form: Zhongxiang
Standard Chinese
Jingmen Municipal People's Government Standard Chinese via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Griante Italian language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Italian
Gautam Buddha Nagar district Hindi
State House Road, Nairobi English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguageEnvironment"
State House Road, Nairobi Swahili language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguageEnvironment"
surface form: Swahili
Arrondissement of Oudenaarde Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Brakel (town) Dutch
Elst
surface form: Elst (Brakel)
Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Nederbrakel Dutch
Opbrakel Dutch
Sint-Maria-Oudenhove (Brakel part) Dutch
Zegelsem Dutch
Maarkedal Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Buyid period Persian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Buyid period Arabic via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Al-Eis Arabic
Al Yamamah Palace Arabic via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialUse"
Government of Sudan Arabic via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Government of Sudan English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Shibli–Umm al-Ghanam Hebrew
Shibli–Umm al-Ghanam Arabic
El Rosal Spanish
Villapinzón Municipality Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
People's Committee of Hoàng Mai District Vietnamese via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Tanah Merah Malay
Stepanakert Azerbaijani language
surface form: Azerbaijani
Việt Hưng Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Jangipur Bengali
Jangipur English
Picton, Ontario English
Bilaspur Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Asago Japanese
Yarrow Point, Washington English
Sandoy Faroese language
surface form: Faroese
Metropolitan City of Florence Italian
Paraná state
surface form: Paraná (state)
Portuguese
Pereira Spanish
Schwandorf German