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
Zand dynasty Persian via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Republic of Georgia Georgian language
surface form: Georgian
Yangsansi Korean via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Engelberg, Switzerland
surface form: Engelberg
German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Logroño Spanish
Ugu District Municipality English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ugu District Municipality isiZulu via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ugu District Municipality Afrikaans via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kingdom of Portugal Portuguese
Sopot Serbian language
surface form: Serbian
Pierrefitte-sur-Seine French
Pepper Pike English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Koura District Arabic
Shan State Burmese
Province of Almería Spanish
Province of Caserta Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Cascais, Portugal
surface form: Cascais
Portuguese
Morlaincourt French
Cape Breton Regional Municipality area
surface form: Cape Breton Regional Municipality
English
Atlantic Canada English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Atlantic Canada French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Piana degli Albanesi Italian
Solothurn-Lebern region German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Pielavesi Finnish
Amana Colonies English
Ladora, Iowa English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ministry of Education of Cuba Spanish
Morges French
Saint-Sauveur-Lendelin French
Freyung-Grafenau German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Dingolfing-Landau German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mary Region Turkmen language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Turkmen
Bestwina Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Wejherowo Polish
Veytaux French
North Saanich English
City of Niš Serbian
Đại Hưng Commune Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Xisaishan District Standard Chinese
Xisaishan District Mandarin Chinese
Yiling District Standard Chinese
Loimaa Finnish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Al-Quway'iyah Governorate Arabic
Schärding German
District 10, Ho Chi Minh City Vietnamese
Tagansky District Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Khamovniki District Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
People's Committee of Phúc Thọ District Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Qala-e Naw Pashto language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Pashto
Qala-e Naw Dari via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"