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
Halhul Arabic
Bank Al-Maghrib Arabic
Bank Al-Maghrib French
Games of the XXVII Olympiad English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Games of the XXVII Olympiad French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Games of the XXVII Olympiad Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Apodaca Spanish
Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein German
1993 Polish parliamentary election Polish via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialMaterials"
Parliament of Romania Romanian
Scornicești Romanian
East Khasi Hills district English
Government of Sierra Leone English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Powys County Council English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Powys County Council Welsh via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Umballa, British India English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
metropolitans of the Ecumenical Patriarchate Greek via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Le Locle French
Grenchen German
Glasgow City council area English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tang Prize in Biopharmaceutical Science Chinese via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialMaterials"
Tang Prize in Biopharmaceutical Science English via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialMaterials"
Massachusetts 15th congressional district English via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialBusiness"
Milford, Ontario English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Cauca Department Spanish
Umeå Swedish
Sandviken Municipality Swedish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Horebeke Dutch
Rusko Finnish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Fürstenfeldbruck district German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kolozsvár Romanian via predicate surface "currentOfficialLanguage"
Hamirpur
surface form: Hamirpur, Uttar Pradesh
Hindi
Juiz de Fora Portuguese
Bamberg district German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kleve German
Biskra Province Arabic
West Kalimantan Indonesian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Transcaspia Russian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Southern Leyte Filipino
Southern Leyte English
Épinal, Vosges, France
surface form: Épinal
French
Mambai people Portuguese via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguageContext"
Mambai people Tetum via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguageContext"
Leichlingen German
Dhi Qar Governorate Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Wuzhishan Standard Chinese
Haikou Special Economic Zone Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Haikou Special Economic Zone Mandarin Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Frankish conquest of the Peloponnese Latin via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Frankish conquest of the Peloponnese French via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"