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
Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Irish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
na Gaeltachtaí Irish language
Údarás na Gaeltachta Irish
Údarás na Gaeltachta English
Aran Islands Gaeltacht Irish language
Aran Islands Gaeltacht Irish language via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Ráth Cairn Gaeltacht Irish
Roman province of Samnium Latin via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Stade German
Cellere Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Prince-Bishopric of Trent Latin
Peja Albanian
Peja Serbian language
surface form: Serbian
San-Pédro French
Maine, Broome County, New York, United States English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Comarca of Alt Empordà Catalan
Comarca of Alt Empordà Spanish
town hall of Le Cateau-Cambrésis French via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Avesnes-sur-Helpe French
Calanda, Teruel, Aragon, Spain
surface form: Calanda
Spanish
La Pera Catalan
La Pera Spanish
Republic of New Granada Spanish
flag of Tuvalu Tuvaluan via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfCountry"
flag of Tuvalu English via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfCountry"
Bragança District Portuguese
Vĩnh Phúc Province Vietnamese
Mérida Spanish
Basilica Sempronia (earlier Republican period)
surface form: Basilica Sempronia
Latin via predicate surface "hasLanguageOfAdministration"
Province of A Coruña Spanish
Province of A Coruña Galician
First Presidency
surface form: First Presidency (Community of Christ)
English via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialActs"
Minsk Region Belarusian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Minsk Region Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ronchi di Apuania Italian
Normandy (administrative region) French
Odintsovsky District Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Thanh Xuân Nam Ward Vietnamese
Khương Mai Ward Vietnamese
Kumamoto Prefecture Japanese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bishopric of Bedburg Latin
Brock Heights English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Italian School of the Judiciary Italian
Italian Revenue Agency Italian
Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship (co-capital)
surface form: Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship
Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award German via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Villèle ministry French via predicate surface "languageOfGovernment"
Créteil French