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
MFA of China
surface form: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China
Standard Chinese
United Nations departments Arabic via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
United Nations departments Chinese via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
United Nations departments English via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
United Nations departments French via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
United Nations departments Russian via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
United Nations departments Spanish via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Samuel S. Wilks Memorial Award English via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialMaterials"
Petralia Soprana Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Isnello Italian
Gratteri Italian
Madonie Regional Natural Park authority Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Lower Dir District Urdu language
surface form: Urdu
Kovno Governorate Russian
Department of Global Communications Arabic
Department of Global Communications Chinese
Department of Global Communications English
Department of Global Communications French
Department of Global Communications Russian
Department of Global Communications Spanish
Deyang Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Turaif Governorate Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sannois French via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Commune of Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine
surface form: Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine
French
Mahe Malayalam
Mahe Tamil
Mahe English
National Railways of Zimbabwe English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Miagao Tagalog via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Filipino
Miagao English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Passi City Filipino
Passi City English
Pototan Tagalog
surface form: Filipino
Pototan English
Kinaray-a none via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguageOf"
Flag of Florida English
Central Region, Ghana English
Province of Salamanca Spanish
Canas Province Spanish
Apurímac Region Spanish
Sango Central African Republic via predicate surface "officialLanguageOf"
Ughelli English
Chindrieux French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
American Astronomical Society Education Prize English
San Biagio della Cima Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ashcroft Indian Band English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
UP Diliman Tagalog
surface form: Filipino
UP Diliman English
Borivali Marathi language
surface form: Marathi
Kurla Marathi language
surface form: Marathi