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
Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Henricus English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Ghat District Arabic
Yantzaza Canton Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Beheira Governorate Arabic
Langenau German
Pardubice Czech via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Trassenheide German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Red Rock Township, Minnesota English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sawai Madhopur district Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Executive Branch of Mexico Spanish
Superior Auditor of the Federation Spanish
Tlatelolco Tower Spanish via predicate surface "hasLanguageOfAdministration"
Horizontina Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese
Bago Filipino via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bago English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Escalante Filipino via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Escalante English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
San Carlos
surface form: San Carlos, Negros Occidental
Filipino
San Carlos
surface form: San Carlos, Negros Occidental
English
Sangguniang Panlalawigan of Negros Occidental Filipino via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sangguniang Panlalawigan of Negros Occidental English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Nakhon Pathom Thai
New South Wales Electoral Commission English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Supreme Court of New South Wales English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Zaozhuang City Standard Chinese
Barcelonès Catalan
Barcelonès Spanish
Eumseong County Korean via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Deoghar Hindi
Deoghar Urdu language
surface form: Urdu
Phusro Hindi
Phusro Urdu language
surface form: Urdu
Medininagar Hindi
Governor of Jharkhand Hindi via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfOffice"
Governor of Jharkhand English via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfOffice"
Kingdom of Cochin Malayalam via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Seraing French via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Huy French
Malmedy French
Waremme French
Ans French
Visé French
Hannut French
Aywaille French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Wanze French
Amay French
Sprimont French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Federación Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala Spanish
Guilly French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"