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
Jalhay French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Altkirch French
Province of Murcia Spanish
Cottévrard French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ekeren Dutch
Viterbo Spanish
Yangjeong-dong Korean
Erzincan Province Turkish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Friedrichsdorf German
Shah Alam Malay via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
La Roche-en-Ardenne French
Yucatán state
surface form: Yucatán
Spanish
Homa Bay District English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Homa Bay District Swahili language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Swahili
Karimnagar Telugu
Maslianico Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Chiasso Italian
Shouldham Parish Council English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Elm Parish Council English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Eldridge, Alabama English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
New Zealand North Island English via predicate surface "officialLanguageUsed"
New Zealand North Island Māori via predicate surface "officialLanguageUsed"
New Zealand North Island New Zealand Sign Language via predicate surface "officialLanguageUsed"
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Oman Arabic
Ambassador of Malta to the United States Maltese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ambassador of Malta to the United States English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Monaco French
Government of Yemen Arabic
Government of Trinidad and Tobago English
Ministry of Foreign and CARICOM Affairs of Trinidad and Tobago English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of Croatia Croatian
Government of Venezuela Spanish
Navidad, New Spain Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Biak-na-Bato Republic Spanish
Kempten German
Bank of Canada English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguages"
Bank of Canada French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguages"
Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Nakhon Sawan Province Thai
Government of Yugoslavia Serbo-Croatian
Mohrungen district German via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Ipunu French in Gabon via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguageContext"
Government of Estonia Estonian language
surface form: Estonian
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia Estonian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
mye
surface form: Myene
French via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage"
surface form: French (Gabon)
Sirajganj Bengali
Ucayali Region Spanish
Lutzenberg German
Rehetobel German
Wald (AR) German