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
Rimavská Sobota Slovak language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Slovak
Levice Slovak
Pontevedra
surface form: Pontevedra, Capiz
Tagalog
surface form: Filipino
Pontevedra
surface form: Pontevedra, Capiz
English
Commission on Narcotic Drugs Arabic
Commission on Narcotic Drugs Chinese
Commission on Narcotic Drugs English
Commission on Narcotic Drugs French
Commission on Narcotic Drugs Russian
Commission on Narcotic Drugs Spanish
Ramat Gan Municipality Hebrew
Kickapoo Reservation in Texas English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Dausa district Hindi
Rijnsweerd Dutch
Municipality of Puebla Spanish
Soligalich Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Albstadt German
Chuong My District Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Panjshir Province Dari via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Zamboanga del Sur Filipino via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Zamboanga del Sur English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Malatya Province Turkish
Krylatskoye District Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
North-Western Administrative Okrug Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
North Side English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Lambayong Filipino
Lambayong English
Esperanza
surface form: Esperanza, Sultan Kudarat
Filipino via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Esperanza
surface form: Esperanza, Sultan Kudarat
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Lutayan Tagalog via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Filipino
Lutayan English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Prince-Bishopric of Eichstätt Latin
Mogilev Region Belarusian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Mogilev Region Russian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Ayacucho Region Spanish
Västernorrland County Swedish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tsu Japanese
Rimah Governorate Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kotka Finnish
Río Grande Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Río Grande English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Thurgau German
Commune of La Courneuve
surface form: La Courneuve
French
city of Faro
surface form: Faro
Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese
United Kingdom parliamentary constituencies English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Japanese Pacific States Japanese
Japanese Pacific States English
San Andrés and Providencia Department Spanish
Anavyssos Greek
Agios Dimitrios Greek via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"