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
Copa Mercosur Portuguese
European Netherlands Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Pedro Carbo Spanish
Town of Plymouth, Vermont English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Osedalen Norwegian language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Norwegian
Birkenes Norwegian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Razgrad Province Bulgarian
Qadisiyyah Governorate Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Estrie French
Catanzaro Italian
Metsimaholo Local Municipality Sesotho
Metsimaholo Local Municipality Afrikaans
Metsimaholo Local Municipality isiZulu
Metsimaholo Local Municipality English
Ahal Region Turkmen language
surface form: Turkmen
National Council
surface form: National Council of Turkmenistan
Turkmen language
surface form: Turkmen
Government of Turkmenistan Turkmen language via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
surface form: Turkmen
Bäherden District Turkmen language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Turkmen
ECO Secretariat English
ECO Secretariat Persian language
surface form: Persian
ECO Secretariat Turkish
ECO Trade and Development Bank English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Briançon French
Yuhu District Chinese
Sint-Niklaas Dutch
Highland County, Virginia English
Hyvinkää Finnish
Cáceres Spanish
Suleja English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Leysin, Switzerland
surface form: Leysin
French
Livry, France French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Beauséjour French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Arrondissement of Pointe-à-Pitre French via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Department of Guadeloupe French
Tarare French
Mornant French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
LNB Pro A French
Himarë Albanian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gaios Greek via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Magazia Greek
Municipality of Paxos Greek
Greek
surface form: Greek language
Greece via predicate surface "officialLanguageOf"
Greek
surface form: Greek language
Cyprus via predicate surface "officialLanguageOf"
Cibyrrhaeot Theme Greek via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
ALRAM Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Politics of Madeira Portuguese
Yazd Province Persian language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Persian
Nangang District Mandarin Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Taipei International Flora Exposition Chinese
Taipei International Flora Exposition English