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
Miranda de Ebro Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Spanish Florida Spanish
City of Loma Linda English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Santa Catarina
surface form: Santa Catarina (Mexico City neighborhood)
Spanish
uMgungundlovu District Municipality Zulu via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
uMgungundlovu District Municipality English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Newcastle Local Municipality English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Newcastle Local Municipality Zulu via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Vankor oil field Russian via predicate surface "languageOfLocalAdministration"
Konbaung Dynasty Burmese
Burma Socialist Programme Party government Burmese
International Student Festival in Trondheim English
Second Mexican Empire Spanish
Warwick City Hall English via predicate surface "hasLanguageOfOfficialBusiness"
Sui County Standard Chinese
Jiangwan Town Subdistrict Chinese
Berg (Starnberg district) German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Serbo-Croatian Yugoslavia via predicate surface "wasOfficialLanguageOf"
surface form: Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Serbo-Croatian Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes via predicate surface "wasOfficialLanguageOf"
surface form: Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Serbo-Croatian Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes via predicate surface "wasOfficialLanguageOf"
Sonora, Mexico
surface form: Sonora
Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Qijiang District Chinese
Kashirsky Uyezd Russian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Gstadt am Chiemsee German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Närpes Swedish
Närpes Finnish
Tongcheng County Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Chibi City Standard Chinese
Xinhua News Agency Chinese
Xinhua News Agency English
Xinhua News Agency Arabic
Xinhua News Agency French
Xinhua News Agency Spanish
Xinhua News Agency Russian
Xinhua News Agency Portuguese
Xinhua News Agency German
Xinhua News Agency Japanese
Xinhua News Agency Korean
Xinhua News Agency Turkish
Xinhua News Agency Swahili language
surface form: Swahili
Xinhua News Agency Other languages
Audit Office of the Central Military Commission Chinese
Samaná Spanish
Randers Danish
Vellore Tamil via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Lewis and Clark County English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Lucena Filipino
Lucena English
Phùng Xá Commune Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Terminal 2
surface form: Terminal 2 (Nội Bài International Airport)
Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguageEnvironment"