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
District 3, Ho Chi Minh City Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Karakalpakstan Karakalpak
Karakalpakstan Uzbek
Maduravoyal campus English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Maduravoyal campus Tamil via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Island Garden City of Samal Filipino
Island Garden City of Samal English
Paget Parish English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
modern Peru Spanish
Zaragoza, Coahuila Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Şanlıurfa, Turkey
surface form: Şanlıurfa
Turkish
European Defence Agency English
Akmola Region (de facto, though administratively separate) Kazakh via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Akmola Region (de facto, though administratively separate) Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
EEU
surface form: Eurasian Economic Union
Russian
Court of the Eurasian Economic Union Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics English
CAF competitions English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
CAF competitions French via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
CAF competitions Arabic via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
CAF competitions Portuguese via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Kokand Uzbek
Lanao del Norte Filipino via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Lanao del Norte English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Die French
Pierrelatte French
French canton reorganisation of 2015 French via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialActs"
Ville de Valence French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Noyemberyan Armenian language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Armenian
Ministry of Defence of the Slovak Republic Slovak
Harz district German
Collegiate Church, Castle and Old Town of Quedlinburg German via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfLocation"
Municipality of Canela Portuguese via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
European Fisheries Control Agency English
Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic Lithuanian
Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic Russian
Český Těšín Czech via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Dog Island none via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tokelauan Tokelau via predicate surface "officialLanguageOf"
Federal Council of Germany German
La Chêneraie French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bushehr Persian language
surface form: Persian
Chernivtsi Oblast Ukrainian
Catalan municipalities Catalan via predicate surface "haveOfficialLanguage"
Catalan municipalities Spanish via predicate surface "haveOfficialLanguage"
district of Sant Pere, Santa Caterina i la Ribera
surface form: Sant Pere, Santa Caterina i la Ribera
Catalan via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
district of Sant Pere, Santa Caterina i la Ribera
surface form: Sant Pere, Santa Caterina i la Ribera
Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
City Council of Barcelona Catalan
City Council of Barcelona Spanish
Institut Ramon Llull Catalan