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
Villahermosa Spanish
Nymburk Czech
Breconshire English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Breconshire Welsh via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
San Juan del Río Spanish
Voronezh Oblast Russian
Skopinsky Uyezd Russian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Serekunda English via predicate surface "officialLanguageUsed"
Cucunubá Spanish
Paimio Finnish via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Kristinestad Finnish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kristinestad Swedish language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Swedish
Province of Massa-Carrara Italian
Avenue de la Paix French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguageEnvironment"
Kien Giang Vietnamese
Kuvshinovsky District Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ouahigouya French
Tiruvarur Tamil
Frontier Regions Urdu language via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
surface form: Urdu
Frontier Regions English via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Kirkuk Arabic
Kirkuk Kurdish
Kirkuk Turkmens
surface form: Turkmen
Khowai Bengali via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Khowai Kokborok via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Khowai English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tongshan County Standard Chinese
Tolna County Hungarian language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Hungarian
Sárbogárd Hungarian
Florennes French
Alofi English
Alofi Niueans
surface form: Niuean
Zabul Province Pashto language
surface form: Pashto
Grinnell, Iowa English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Luumäki Finnish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Siquijor Filipino
Siquijor English
Domingo de Salazar Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Yatesville English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sharurah Arabic
Hubuna Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Badr Al Janub Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Khubash Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Thar Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Capileira Spanish
province of Potenza
surface form: Province of Potenza
Italian
Banzi Italian
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Japanese
Viana do Castelo Portuguese
Wagenborgen Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"