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
Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic Russian
Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic Moldovan
Jura French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Newark Police Department English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
New Jersey State Police English
IMU
surface form: International Mathematical Union
English
International Commission on Mathematical Instruction English
International Commission on Mathematical Instruction French
Košice Region Slovak via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Fès-Meknès region
surface form: Fès-Meknès
Arabic
Fès-Meknès region
surface form: Fès-Meknès
Amazigh
Asnières-sur-Seine French
Filadelfia Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Donegal Gaeltacht Irish
Enshi City Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Lincoln, Ontario English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Overijse Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mtsensky Uyezd Russian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Rivne Oblast Ukrainian
municipality of Valence French via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Bad Hersfeld German
Eschwege German
Morocco (as part of Amazigh)
surface form: Morocco
Arabic
Morocco (as part of Amazigh)
surface form: Morocco
Amazigh
Gien French
Centre French
Cabadbaran Filipino via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Cabadbaran English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bislig Filipino
Bislig English
Bradina Bosnian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bradina Croatian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bradina Serbian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Portoviejo Spanish
Ambato Spanish
Biella Italian
Salvador Alvarado Spanish
Woburn English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bobo-Dioulasso French
Bedford Heights English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Farah Province Pashto language
surface form: Pashto
Farah Province Dari
Freyung German
Magway Region Burmese via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Forchheim district German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sarine district French
Sarine district German
San Lorenzo
surface form: San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico
Spanish
San Lorenzo
surface form: San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico
English
Paltamo Finnish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"