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
Swedish Migration Agency Swedish
Swedish Environmental Protection Agency Swedish
People's Committee of Hoài Đức District Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Campos dos Goytacazes Portuguese
Alcaldía de Santiago de Cali Spanish
Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
British authorities in Mandatory Palestine English
British authorities in Mandatory Palestine Arabic
British authorities in Mandatory Palestine Hebrew
Beauvechain French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ribeirão Preto Portuguese
Coburg district German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Trans-Ural frontier Russian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Viracochapampa Spanish via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage"
Sabya Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Abu Arish Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Baish Arabic
Poultry English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
United States Embassy in Manila English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Al Wajh Arabic
Seal of the State of Texas English
Taurida Governorate Russian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Western Finland Province Finnish
Western Finland Province Swedish
Al-Zulfi Governorate Arabic
Third Czechoslovak Republic Czech
Third Czechoslovak Republic Slovak
Tocopilla Province Spanish
Zamora Spanish
House of Representatives of American Samoa English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
House of Representatives of American Samoa Samoan via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
District Court of American Samoa English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
District Court of American Samoa Samoan language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Samoan
Perm Krai Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Colony of Jamaica English
The Bottom Dutch
Dutch law Dutch via predicate surface "languageOfLaw"
Riaba Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Baney Spanish
Narvik Municipality Norwegian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Piazza dei Signori
surface form: Piazza dei Signori (Padua)
Italian via predicate surface "languageUsedInOfficialContext"
Piedras Negras Spanish
Teguise Spanish
San Antonio del Tequendama Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Pasto Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Khulna Division Bengali