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
Parun Dari via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Courbevoie French
Altötting German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
East Azerbaijan Province Persian language
surface form: Persian
Paktika Province Pashto language
surface form: Pashto
Kronach district German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Beit Shemesh Hebrew
Jinsha Township Mandarin Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Haut-Ogooué Province French
Municipality of Othón P. Blanco Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
La Jolla Band of Luiseño Indians English
Madhepur Hindi
Madhepur Urdu language
surface form: Urdu
Latacunga Spanish
Municipality of Guayaquil Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Zaragoza, Puebla Spanish
Eurasian Economic Commission Russian
Dorfchemnitz German
Gilbertese language Kiribati via predicate surface "officialLanguageOf"
municipality of Ouder-Amstel Dutch
Ndjolé French via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfLocation"
Kỳ Sơn District Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Afar Region Afar
Afar Region Amharic
Tutuala Tetum
Tutuala Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese
General Conference on Weights and Measures French
General Conference on Weights and Measures English
Supercopa Sudamericana Spanish
Supercopa Sudamericana Portuguese
Ghoghardiha Hindi
Torreón Spanish
Pusanjin-gu Korean
Aabenraa Danish
Radziejów Polish
Ahrensburg German
Embassy of Madagascar in Washington, D.C. French via predicate surface "officialLanguageUsed"
Embassy of Madagascar in Washington, D.C. Malagasy via predicate surface "officialLanguageUsed"
Embassy of Madagascar in Washington, D.C. English via predicate surface "officialLanguageUsed"
Iguala de la Independencia Spanish
Autoritat del Transport Metropolità Catalan
Autoritat del Transport Metropolità Spanish
Government of Upper Canada English
Government House, York English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Government of the Republic of the Congo French via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"