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
Wolfurt, Austria
surface form: Wolfurt
German
Otavalo Canton Spanish
Quechuan Peru via predicate surface "usedAsOfficialLanguageIn"
Quechuan Bolivia via predicate surface "usedAsOfficialLanguageIn"
Hamina Finnish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hamina Swedish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Rota, Spain Spanish
Raisio Finnish
Raisio Swedish
Aura Finnish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kustavi Finnish
Vehmaa Finnish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kemiönsaari Finnish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kemiönsaari Swedish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tarvasjoki Finnish
Velkua Finnish via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Judicial Branch of Uruguay Spanish
Jaintia Hills English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Meghalaya High Court English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Athonite commonwealth Greek via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
National Bank of Ethiopia Amharic via predicate surface "officialLanguageUsed"
National Bank of Ethiopia English via predicate surface "officialLanguageUsed"
ACP Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
ACP English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
United Nations Statistics Division Arabic
United Nations Statistics Division Chinese
United Nations Statistics Division English
United Nations Statistics Division French
United Nations Statistics Division Russian
United Nations Statistics Division Spanish
French regions French via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Free State of Waldeck German
Bregenz German
Mikhaylovka Russian
Regional Municipality of York English
Lahti Finnish via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Roman state Latin via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Weidach German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Dharwad district Kannada
Madurai City Municipal Corporation Tamil
Huraymila Arabic
Al-Hareeq Arabic
Akaa Finnish via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Matehuala Spanish
Hermigua Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Travancore-Cochin Malayalam
Travancore-Cochin English via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Essling German
Baharestan County Persian
Ahvaz Persian language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Persian