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
Wegeleben German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
River Nile State Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
North Kordofan State Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
East Nile locality Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Jabal Awliya locality Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Umbadda locality Arabic
Batala Punjabi language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Punjabi
Tarn Taran Punjabi language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Punjabi
Abrahamic Family House Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Abrahamic Family House English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bishopric of Breckerfeld Middle Dutch via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
İzmir Metropolitan Municipality building Turkish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Patiala Punjabi language
surface form: Punjabi
Patiala district Punjabi language
surface form: Punjabi
Baran district Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Jhalawar district Hindi
Kowloon City District Chinese
Kowloon City District English
Constitution of Croatia Croatian via predicate surface "definesOfficialLanguage"
FM Swedish
Municipality of León Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Niton and Whitwell English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
wali of Algiers Province Arabic via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
French protectorate of Tunisia French
French protectorate of Tunisia Arabic
Aubagne French
Leticia Spanish
Puerto Leguízamo Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
San José del Guaviare Spanish
Mitú Spanish
Maysan Governorate Arabic
Aspropyrgos municipality Greek via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mandra–Eidyllia municipality Greek via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Megara municipality Greek via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Darmstadt-Dieburg German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Limburg an der Vesdre French
Hajipur Hindi
Motihari Hindi
Motihari Urdu language
surface form: Urdu
Motihari Maithili via predicate surface "stateOfficialLanguage"
San Antonio de Putina Province Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Isabela Filipino via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Isabela English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Begusarai district Hindi
Gojō, Nara Prefecture Japanese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Pavlodar Region Kazakh
Pavlodar Region Russian
Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Étrembières French
Copa Mercosur Spanish