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
Province of Sondrio Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Office of the President of Vietnam Vietnamese
Pasir Puteh Malay
Bachok Malay via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
New Hebrides English
New Hebrides French
Cayo Real (island)
surface form: Cayo Real
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguageOfSovereignState"
Cayo Real (island)
surface form: Cayo Real
Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguageOfSovereignState"
Wessum German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Matoury French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Brandenburg an der Havel German
Hennigsdorf German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Vitoria-Gasteiz Spanish
Vitoria-Gasteiz Basque
Wuhai Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Pishva County Persian
Sömmerda district German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Cherkasy Oblast Ukrainian
Rixensart French
Rampur district Hindi
Tezu English
Tezu Hindi
Université de Moncton French
Třešť Czech
Constanța County Romanian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Dvortsovy Municipal Okrug Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Foundry Municipal Okrug Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Government of Puducherry Tamil
Government of Puducherry French
Government of Puducherry English
Government of Puducherry Telugu
Government of Puducherry Malayalam
Yanam (Puducherry Assembly constituency) Telugu via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Yanam (Puducherry Assembly constituency) French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Yanam (Puducherry Assembly constituency) English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Yanam (Puducherry Assembly constituency) Tamil via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hosapete Kannada
Hosapete Kannada via predicate surface "stateOfficialLanguage"
Mejillones Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Brooklyn Community District 4 English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Zealand Region Danish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands English
Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands Pitkern
Adamstown English
Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen Latin via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen Hungarian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Pasir Gudang Malay
Xiangnan (southern Hunan) cultural region
surface form: Xiangnan cultural region
Xiang Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Pingshan, Hebei
surface form: Pingshan County, Hebei
Standard Chinese
Borough of Cuauhtémoc government Spanish