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
Brooklyn Community Board 10 English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Santa Cruz, Laguna Tagalog via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Filipino
Santa Cruz, Laguna English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sikasso French
Shayang County Standard Chinese
Étaples, France French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Osiauri Georgian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguageOfCountry"
Gomi Georgian
Mesagne Italian
Itami City Hall Japanese via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialBusiness"
Catholic University in Ružomberok Slovak
Ben Thanh Ward Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Binh Duong Province Vietnamese via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Tây Ninh Province Vietnamese
Royal Government of Cambodia Khmer via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Revolutionary Command Council (Libya) Arabic
Oregon State Fire Marshal English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Oak Harbor, Washington English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Egentliga Finland Finnish via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Egentliga Finland Swedish via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Marttila Finnish
Pöytyä Finnish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Shekhan district
surface form: Shekhan District
Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Shekhan district
surface form: Shekhan District
Kurdish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hasakah Arabic via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfAdministration"
Hasakah Kurdish language via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfAdministration"
surface form: Kurdish
Hasakah Syriac via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfAdministration"
Sharqat Arabic via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage"
Hall of the House of Representatives
surface form: Hall of the House of Representatives (Connecticut State Capitol)
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bùi Thị Xuân Ward Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Cầu Dền Ward Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Đống Mác Ward Vietnamese
Đồng Tâm Ward Vietnamese
Nguyễn Du Ward Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Phạm Đình Hổ Ward Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Phố Huế Ward Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Quỳnh Lôi Ward Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Trương Định Ward Vietnamese
municipality of Woluwe-Saint-Pierre
surface form: Woluwe-Saint-Pierre
French
municipality of Woluwe-Saint-Pierre
surface form: Woluwe-Saint-Pierre
Dutch
Bettingen German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
People's Socialist Republic of Albania Albanian
Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnian
Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina Croatian
Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina Serbian
Toshima Japanese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bourdigny French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Elgin County English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Grover Beach English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Vechta German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"