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
Bishopric of Kierspe Latin via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Cameroon Football Federation French
Cameroon Football Federation English
Abia State, Nigeria
surface form: Abia State
English
Dominicans Spanish
GA3 English via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialBusiness"
Deukhuri Nepali via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Constitution of Nepal 2015 Nepali via predicate surface "definesOfficialLanguage"
Vinkel, Netherlands Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed Dutch
Ministry of Education of the United Arab Emirates Arabic
Ministry of Health and Prevention of the United Arab Emirates Arabic
Ministry of Health and Prevention of the United Arab Emirates English
CBUAE Arabic
CBUAE English
Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kargil district Urdu language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Urdu
Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular Spanish
Bourgoin-Jallieu French
San Luis District Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
La Chorrera District Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Quanshan District Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Taubaté Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese
Council of State of Greece Greek
Virajpet Kannada via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Harderwijk Dutch
Provins French
Santa Clara Canton Spanish
Zottegem Dutch
Alicante Spanish
Alicante Catalan
surface form: Valencian
Hódmezővásárhely Hungarian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Chincha Province Spanish
Jiawang District Standard Chinese
Itaquaquecetuba Portuguese
Şırnak Turkish
Ahrensfelde German
Werneuchen German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Haldwani Hindi
Jeneponto Regency Indonesian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Husøy
surface form: Husøy (Senja)
Norwegian language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Norwegian
Bad Bentheim German
La Bresse French
Tiruchirappalli City Municipal Corporation Tamil via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Lauderhill, Florida English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Amathole District Municipality isiXhosa via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Amathole District Municipality English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Amathole District Municipality Afrikaans via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kopřivnice Czech
Northeastern Spain Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"