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

Sample triples (46,259)

Subject Object
Kingdom of Sardinia French
Kingdom of Sardinia Latin
Botswana English
Botswana Setswana via predicate surface "nationalLanguage"
Nepal Nepali
Nepal Nepali via predicate surface "nationalLanguage"
Manitoba English
Manitoba French
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands English
Tutuila English
Tutuila Samoans
surface form: Samoan
Principality of Catalonia Catalan via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Principality of Catalonia Latin via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Principality of Catalonia Occitan via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Federal Council
surface form: Federal Council (Austria)
German
Western Norway Norwegian language
surface form: Norwegian
National Council
surface form: National Council (Austria)
German
Northern Norway Norwegian
Surrey County Council English
Saxony German
British Antarctic Territory English
Brunei Darussalam Malay
Viceroyalty of New Spain Spanish
British Columbia English
Albania Albanian language
surface form: Albanian
Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize English
Barbados English
International Monetary Fund English
International Monetary Fund French
International Monetary Fund Spanish
European Council all official languages of the European Union via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Vatican City Italian language
surface form: Italian
Vatican City Latin
Rhode Island English (de facto) via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguageStatus"
Finland Finnish
Finland Swedish
Colombia Spanish
Trinidad and Tobago English
Batavian Republic Dutch
Byzantine Empire Greek
Byzantine Empire Greek via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Coimbra Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese
Dicastery for Bishops Latin via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Dicastery for Bishops Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tripoli Arabic
ECOWAS English
ECOWAS French
ECOWAS Portuguese
Gdynia Polish
Sindh Sindhi