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
Latvian SSR Latvian
Hanko, Finland Finnish via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Hanko, Finland Swedish via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Uttara Kannada district Kannada
Boven Pekela Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hyder Ali Kannada via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Hyder Ali Urdu language via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
surface form: Urdu
Boone County
surface form: Boone County, Indiana
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mantua Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Huangpu District People’s Government Chinese via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Văn Điển township Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tả Thanh Oai commune Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tam Hiệp commune Vietnamese
Tứ Hiệp commune Vietnamese
Ngọc Hồi commune Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Duyên Hà commune Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Yên Xá commune Vietnamese
Thanh Liệt commune Vietnamese via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Hồng Thái commune Vietnamese
Hail Arabic
Frederiksberg Danish
arrondissement of Moulins French via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Argeș County Romanian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Câmpulung, Argeș County Romanian
Santander Spanish
Irrigación neighborhood Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Yaguará Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Temara Arabic
Temara Amazigh
municipality of Westerkwartier
surface form: Westerkwartier
Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Pupri Hindi via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfRegion"
Lower Subansiri district English
Lower Subansiri district Hindi
Lakhimpur district Assamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Lakhimpur district English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kralendijk Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Dufferin County English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
United States Ambassador to Paraguay English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
TX-07 English via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialBusiness"
Te Wahipounamu World Heritage Area English
Te Wahipounamu World Heritage Area Māori
Office of the President of Malta Maltese
Office of the President of Malta English
Paola Maltese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Paola English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Salluit Inuktitut
Salluit French
Salluit English
Kativik Regional Government Inuktitut via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kativik Regional Government French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"