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
Kanesatake English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kanesatake French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Council of Higher Education of Turkey Turkish
Achtmaal Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Lac district French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Lac district German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Veveyse district French
Broye district (Fribourg) French
Singine district
surface form: Singine District
German
Montigny-le-Bretonneux French
Tây Đằng Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sainte-Mesme French
Jackson Township
surface form: Jackson Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sugar Creek Township English (de facto) via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Rhode Island Senate English
Xelayan Union Xelayan language via predicate surface "languageOfGovernment"
Nalgonda Telugu
Karad Municipal Council Marathi via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
GPRF French via predicate surface "languageOfGovernment"
Oregon State Senate chamber English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Crown Colony of Sarawak English
Law 4,595 of 1964 Portuguese
Taihoku-shū Japanese via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Haridwar district Hindi
Haridwar district Sanskrit
Haridwar Municipal Corporation Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Chevak, Alaska English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
uThukela District Municipality English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
uThukela District Municipality Zulu via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kilchberg, Switzerland German
Texas Legislative Council English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Oberstdorf German
Cadaqués Catalan
Cadaqués Spanish
Oum El Bouaghi Province Arabic
Salina Cruz Spanish
comarca of La Jacetania
surface form: La Jacetania
Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
autonomous community of Aragon
surface form: Aragon
Spanish
autonomous community of Aragon
surface form: Aragon
Aragonese language
surface form: Aragonese
autonomous community of Aragon
surface form: Aragon
Catalan
Continente Portuguese
Chi Đông Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Chi Đông Township Vietnamese
Quang Minh Township Vietnamese
Rudolfsheim German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Qusar District Azerbaijani language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Azerbaijani
Port Fuad Arabic
Vitória Portuguese
U.S. Military Government of the Philippine Islands English
U.S. Military Government of the Philippine Islands Spanish