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
People’s Committee of Hoàn Kiếm District Vietnamese via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Schiltigheim French
Val-de-Travers French
Krabi Province Thai
Haikou Standard Chinese
surface form: Standard Mandarin
Vasileostrovsky District of Saint Petersburg Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Howrah Municipal Corporation Bengali via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Howrah Municipal Corporation English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Howrah Sadar subdivision Bengali via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
King Baudouin Stadium French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
King Baudouin Stadium Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht Dutch
East Delhi Hindi
America East Conference English
Nairobi City County Government English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Nairobi City County Government Swahili via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Fédération Équestre Internationale French
Fédération Équestre Internationale English
Oppeano Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Moscow principality Old Russian
Moscow principality Church Slavonic
Vijayawada Central Telugu
Jiulongpo District Standard Chinese
Hechuan District Standard Chinese
Magé Portuguese
Itaboraí Portuguese
Mably French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Domodedovo Urban Okrug Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Supreme Court of the Russian Federation Russian
Mandated Islands Japanese via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Shaqra Arabic
Afif Arabic
Dawadmi Arabic
Rimah Arabic via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfCountry"
Wadi ad-Dawasir Arabic
As Sulayyil Governorate Arabic
Kaliště Czech via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Malian Ministry of Security and Civil Protection French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
North Eastern Province of Kenya English
North Eastern Province of Kenya Swahili
Coesfeld German
Xalisco Spanish
Bojonegoro Indonesian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hatillo Spanish
Chilliwack English
Trung Hòa Ward Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
International Criminal Police Organization English
International Criminal Police Organization French
International Criminal Police Organization Spanish
International Criminal Police Organization Arabic