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
Candidatura d'Unitat Popular Catalan
Csákvár Hungarian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Jinhu Township Mandarin Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Valence, Drôme French
Basopatti Hindi
Sironcha Marathi language
surface form: Marathi
Ibarra Spanish
Babahoyo Spanish
Rygge Norwegian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Våler (Østfold) Bokmål via predicate surface "officialLanguageForm"
Vestby Norwegian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Jura-Nord vaudois French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Concise French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Fiez French
Giez French
Onnens (VD) French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bishopric of Leichlingen Latin via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
San Sebastián de La Gomera Spanish
Le Beausset French
Kamarpukur Bengali
Kamarpukur English
Koudougou French
Connemara Gaeltacht Irish
Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality Council English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality Council Zulu via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality Council Xhosa via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality Council Afrikaans via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality Council Northern Sotho (Sepedi) via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Northern Sotho
Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality Council Sotho via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Southern Sotho
Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality Council Setswana via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Tswana
Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality Council Tsonga via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality Council Venda via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality Council Northern Ndebele via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Ndebele
Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality Council Swati via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma English
Eagle Lake First Nation English
BAFTA Games Award for Performer English
Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech Republic Czech via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Othón P. Blanco Municipality Spanish
Obernai French
Ngounié Province French
Kumbakonam Tamil
Pusa, New Delhi Hindi
Pusa, New Delhi English
Vila Maumeta Tetum via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Vila Maumeta Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Polish–Lithuanian occupation of Smolensk Polish via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Polish–Lithuanian occupation of Smolensk Latin via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Stains French
Luftfahrt-Bundesamt German