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
Damietta Governorate Arabic
Raiganj Bengali via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Raiganj English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Karviná Czech
Bhilai Hindi
Russas Portuguese
Sakhalin Oblast Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Trinidad Spanish
Barnaul Russian
Daburiyya Hebrew via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mynämäki Finnish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
University of Turku Finnish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kärkölä, Finland
surface form: Kärkölä
Finnish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Larsmo Swedish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Malax Swedish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Malax Finnish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Province of Lodi Italian
Municipality of Portimão Portuguese
Alappuzha Malayalam
Alappuzha English
Oegstgeest Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Chieti Italian language
surface form: Italian
Flag of French Polynesia French via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfDescription"
Flag of French Polynesia Tahitian language via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfDescription"
surface form: Tahitian
Conseil scolaire Viamonde French
Aylmer French
Masson-Angers French
Pityusic Islands Spanish
Pityusic Islands Catalan
Princess of Asturias Foundation Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Province of Treviso Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tampin District Malay via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Government of Niger French via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Kochi Malayalam
Kochi English
Hillegom Dutch
Traunstein district German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Salo, Finland Finnish via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Venyovsky Uyezd Russian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Sremska Mitrovica Serbian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Western Oblast (Russian SFSR) Russian
CFU Club Championship English
FNWI Dutch
Alkemade Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bilderdam Dutch
Zevenhuizen (Kaag en Braassem) Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Haarlemmermeer town hall Dutch via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
ICMBio Portuguese
Games of the XXXI Olympiad Portuguese
Games of the XXXI Olympiad English