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
Ins German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kerzers German
Kerzers French
Silao de la Victoria Spanish
Romita Municipality Spanish
Irapuato Municipality Spanish
San Francisco del Rincón Municipality Spanish
Wijchen Dutch
Kaben Marshallese via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage"
Kaben English via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage"
Taroa village Marshallese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Taroa village English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Vulaines-sur-Seine French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bhilwara Assembly constituency Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Samawah Arabic
Urdos French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Commune of Urdos French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Flers, Orne, France French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Loreto Municipality Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Heroica Ciudad Juárez Spanish
L’Île-Saint-Denis French
Bobigny (department capital of Seine-Saint-Denis)
surface form: Bobigny
French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Cheverly Police Department English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Free City of Frankfurt German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Osage Nation reservation English
Osage Nation reservation Osage language
Arad County Romanian
Dalsinghsarai Hindi
Dalsinghsarai Urdu language
surface form: Urdu
Belstead English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Lime Springs English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Grand Prince of Transylvania Latin via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Grand Prince of Transylvania Hungarian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Grand Prince of Transylvania German via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Lagos Island Local Government Area English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Yewa South English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Central and Western District Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Central and Western District English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Eastern District Chinese
Eastern District English
Flémalle French
Blegny French
Purnia Hindi
Purnia Urdu language
surface form: Urdu
Begusarai Hindi
Omasuyos Province Spanish
Isfiya Hebrew
Várzea Paulista Portuguese
Bharatpur Municipal Corporation Hindi via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Faculty of Letters
surface form: Faculty of Letters, Doshisha University
Japanese via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage"