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
Nalanda district headquarters Bihar Sharif
surface form: Bihar Sharif
Hindi
Government of Bihar Hindi via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Saint-Nicolas (Liège) French
FMC
surface form: Federación de Mujeres Cubanas
Spanish
La Reina Spanish
Federal Ministry of Interior
surface form: Federal Ministry of Interior (Nigeria)
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ghana Football Association English
Principality of Lucca and Piombino Italian
Yasu Japanese
Erlangen-Höchstadt German
Sikar district Hindi
Sri Madhopur Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Timaru District English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Timaru District Māori via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Okigwe English
Mbaitoli English
Ideato North English language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Isiala Mbano English language
Onuimo English
surface form: English language
Ngor Okpala English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ikeduru English via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Njaba English language via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Nez Perce Reservation English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
La Banda Spanish
Coroico Spanish
Daliyat al-Karmel Hebrew via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Daliyat al-Karmel Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
World Federation of Trade Unions English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
World Federation of Trade Unions French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
World Federation of Trade Unions Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
World Federation of Trade Unions Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
World Federation of Trade Unions Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
World Federation of Trade Unions Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
World Federation of Trade Unions German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
World Federation of Trade Unions Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
World Federation of Trade Unions Greek via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Region of Ica Spanish
Manziana Italian
Nesslau-Krummenau German
Vyshnevolotsky Uyezd Russian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Klatovy Czech
La Molina District Spanish
Jesús María District Spanish
Taboga District Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Canton of Luxembourg Luxembourgish
Canton of Luxembourg French
Canton of Luxembourg German
Bellinzona Italian
Jharkhand High Court English