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
CRC Committee Arabic
CRC Committee Chinese
CRC Committee English
CRC Committee French
CRC Committee Russian
CRC Committee Spanish
Belgian territorial waters Dutch via predicate surface "hasLanguageOfAdministration"
Belgian territorial waters French via predicate surface "hasLanguageOfAdministration"
Belgian territorial waters German via predicate surface "hasLanguageOfAdministration"
Celestún Spanish
Refahyol coalition government Turkish via predicate surface "languageOfGovernment"
Court of Accounts
surface form: Court of Accounts (Turkey)
Turkish
Netball World Cup English
Piedmont region of Italy
surface form: Piedmont
Italian
Zapopan Spanish
Sonneberg German
Teutschenthal German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Pronsky Uyezd Russian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Federal Territory of Malaysia Malay
Baní Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Malakoff French
Chaville French
Le Plessis-Robinson French
R Wpg Rif
surface form: Royal Winnipeg Rifles
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
R Wpg Rif
surface form: Royal Winnipeg Rifles
French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Capitale-Nationale region
surface form: Capitale-Nationale
French
Beauport French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tui Spanish
Tui Galician language
surface form: Galician
Heide German
NDB
surface form: New Development Bank
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Klumpke-Roberts Award English
Cham German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tirschenreuth (district) German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ferreiras parish Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gagauzia Gagauz
Gagauzia Romanian
Gagauzia Russian
Comrat Romanian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Don Host Oblast Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Naantali Finnish via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Afif Governorate Arabic
Neuötting German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Durham
surface form: Durham Region
English
Thanh Xuân Trung Ward Vietnamese
Płośnica Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Soc Trang Vietnamese
Presnensky District Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
State Chancellery of Lower Saxony German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Prince-Bishopric of Strasbourg Latin