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
Embassy of the United Kingdom in Japan English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Third Settlement Arabic
Elazığ Province Turkish
Korsholm Swedish
Korsholm Finnish
Gmina Rymanów Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ministry of Defense of El Salvador Spanish
Norwegian law Norwegian via predicate surface "languageOfLaw"
Statsministerboligen Norwegian via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfCountry"
Benishangul-Gumuz Region Amharic
Luvenda South Africa via predicate surface "isOfficialLanguageOf"
North West Provincial Legislature English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
North West Provincial Legislature Setswana via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Toro Spanish
Conwy County Borough English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Conwy County Borough Welsh via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mikongo French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mogoditshane English
Town of Au Sable English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Le Haut-Richelieu Regional County Municipality, Quebec
surface form: Le Haut-Richelieu Regional County Municipality
French
Mahikeng English
Mahikeng Setswana
municipality of Ponce
surface form: Municipality of Ponce
Spanish
municipality of Ponce
surface form: Municipality of Ponce
English
municipality of Arecibo Spanish
municipality of Arecibo English
Supreme Court of Israel Hebrew via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Supreme Court of Israel Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Itanagar English
Itanagar Hindi
San Diego Metropolitan Transit System English
Tehsil Municipal Administration Mansehra Urdu language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Urdu
Tehsil Municipal Administration Mansehra English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
1990 IIHF World Championship English
1990 IIHF World Championship French
2013 IIHF World Championship English
2013 IIHF World Championship French
UNESCO World Heritage Site "Works of Antoni Gaudí"
surface form: Works of Antoni Gaudí
Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
UNESCO World Heritage Site "Works of Antoni Gaudí"
surface form: Works of Antoni Gaudí
Catalan via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Stadtmitte
surface form: Stadtmitte (Bad Honnef)
German
Loreto, Italy Italian
Castelldefels Catalan
Castelldefels Spanish
Espinosa Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Espinosa English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Japan Korean via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Japan Japanese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Japan English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sézenove French
Loëx French