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
Hotat Bani Tamim Governorate Arabic
Central Finland Finnish via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Dahisar Marathi language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Marathi
North Athens Greek
Jhunjhunu district Hindi
Elliniko-Argyroupoli Greek via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mozhaysky District Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kauhava Finnish via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Saint-Martin-d’Hères French
San Isidro District Spanish
San Borja District Spanish
Palo Seco Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Palo Seco English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
State of Damascus Arabic
State of Aleppo Arabic
State of Aleppo French via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Greater Lebanon French
Greater Lebanon Arabic
Royal Agricultural Winter Fair English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Royal Agricultural Winter Fair French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Baabda Arabic
Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate Ottoman Turkish
Cayman Islands Government English
Villeneuve, Vaud French
Villeneuve French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Republic of Central Lithuania Polish
Pirkkala, Finland
surface form: Pirkkala
Finnish
Saxon Seats German via predicate surface "hadOfficialLanguage"
County of Richmond Latin via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
County of Richmond Anglo-Norman via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
surface form: Anglo-Norman French
Espoo City Council Finnish
Espoo City Council Swedish
Brennan English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Wiltshire Council English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Salisbury (UK Parliament constituency) English via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialMaterials"
Zahle Arabic
Pizhou Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Xinyi Standard Chinese
Zvolen Slovak
Mordovia Russian
Mordovia Moksha
Mordovia Erzya language
surface form: Erzya
Fairmont, North Carolina English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Portuguese state Portuguese
Historic Centre of Prague Czech via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Qiannan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture Standard Chinese
Weststellingwerf Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kannauj Hindi
Selwyn District English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Selwyn District Māori via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"