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
Tirunelveli Tamil
Caloocan Filipino
Caloocan English
Greiz district German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kirovohrad Oblast Ukrainian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Torgau German
Imbabura Province Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Abha Arabic
Bisha Arabic
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan Arabic
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan English
National Assembly building, Omdurman Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
National Assembly building, Omdurman English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté French
Kurdistan Province (Iran) Persian
Nykarleby Swedish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Nykarleby Finnish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ostallgäu German
Diqing
surface form: Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
Standard Chinese
Phúc Lâm Commune Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Dietingen German
Landkreis Günzburg German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Khammam Telugu
Kajang Malay
French Guinea French
Washington Court of Appeals English
Ashti taluka Marathi language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Marathi
UNESCO World Heritage Site (Historic Centre of Bruges)
surface form: Historic Centre of Bruges
Dutch via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfLocation"
Kokborok Tripura (along with Bengali and English) via predicate surface "isOfficialLanguageOf"
Ambassa Bengali via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ambassa Kokborok via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ambassa English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
City of San Luis English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
City of San Luis Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Orduña Basque via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Orduña Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
National Assembly of The Gambia English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ipswich Borough Council English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Chitrakoot division Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mahoba Hindi
Banda Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Nagaland Legislative Assembly English
Mokokchung English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mon English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Zunheboto English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Longleng English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mandatory Palestine English
Mandatory Palestine Arabic
Mandatory Palestine Hebrew
Florida's 2nd congressional district English via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialBusiness"