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
Oranjestad Dutch
Island Council of Sint Eustatius Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Corinthia regional unit Greek via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Kirovsk Russian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Östersund Municipality Swedish
Mid Wales Welsh
Mid Wales English
Seminole Nation of Oklahoma English
Apatzingán Spanish
Pinneberg German
Neustadt an der Waldnaab German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Solntsevo District Russian
Kholmogorsky District Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Aklan Filipino
Aklan English
Vlissingen Dutch
Bishopric of Odenthal Middle Dutch via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
municipality of Nesodden
surface form: Nesodden
Bokmål
RAEOA Tetum via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
RAEOA Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
RAEOA Portuguese via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfAdministration"
RAEOA Tetum via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfAdministration"
Passabe Portuguese language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Portuguese
Passabe Tetum via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Comuna 14 of Buenos Aires Spanish
Vân Đình Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Vân Đình township Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Union of the American states no official language at federal level via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguageStatus"
MCD
surface form: Moscow Central Diameters
Russian
West Kazakhstan Region Kazakh
West Kazakhstan Region Russian
Eastern and Midland Regional Assembly area English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Eastern and Midland Regional Assembly area Irish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Vallès Occidental Catalan
Vallès Occidental Spanish
Maresme Catalan
Maresme Spanish
Bages Catalan via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bages Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Anoia Catalan
Anoia Spanish
Berguedà Catalan
Santa Coloma de Cervelló Catalan
Santa Coloma de Cervelló Spanish
Plaça del Rei Catalan
Plaça del Rei Spanish
Baheri Hindi
Baheri Maithili
Jale Hindi
Jale Urdu language
surface form: Urdu