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
Postville English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Rigolet English
Rigolet Inuktitut
surface form: Inuttitut
Inuit region of Labrador Inuktitut
surface form: Inuttitut
Inuit region of Labrador English
Kingston, Jamaica English
Sangrur Punjabi language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Punjabi
Sangrur district Punjabi language
surface form: Punjabi
Cieszyn County Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Wong Tai Sin District Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Wong Tai Sin District English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Latakia Governorate Arabic
Syktyvkar Russian
Syktyvkar Komi
Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sodankylä Finnish language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Finnish
Otaru City Government Japanese
Enugu North English via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Commission on Human Rights
surface form: Commission on Human Rights (Philippines)
Filipino via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Commission on Human Rights
surface form: Commission on Human Rights (Philippines)
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
PHILJA English
PHILJA Filipino
Kawit, Cavite Filipino via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kawit, Cavite English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
National Historical Commission of the Philippines Filipino via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
National Historical Commission of the Philippines English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Jalandhar Punjabi language
surface form: Punjabi
Klagenfurt German
Menthon-Saint-Bernard French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Żebbuġ, Malta Maltese
Żebbuġ, Malta English
Paruro Province Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Pirkanmaa region
surface form: Pirkanmaa
Finnish via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
El Agustino District Spanish
Cassano d’Adda Italian
Karlskrona Swedish
São José do Rio Preto Portuguese
Kirkkonummi Finnish
Kirkkonummi Swedish
Jœuf French
Folkestad, Norway Norwegian language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Norwegian
Al Shahaniya Municipality Arabic
La Cité-Limoilou borough French
Southern Provincial Council Sinhala via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Southern Provincial Council Tamil via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
State Lodge, Kisumu English via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialUse"
State Lodge, Kisumu Swahili via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialUse"
Vézac French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hazaribagh Hindi
Târgu Mureș Romanian language
surface form: Romanian