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
Golestan Province Persian
CSI 5* French
CSI 5* English
Iveland Norwegian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Japo Marshallese language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Marshallese
Japo English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Southwest Palau Palauan
Southwest Palau English
Canton of Echternach Luxembourgish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Canton of Echternach French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Canton of Echternach German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Armiansk urban hromada Ukrainian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Armiansk urban hromada Russian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Armiansk municipality Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Department for State Secret Protection Ukrainian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Isan Thai language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ilocos Norte Filipino via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ilocos Norte English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Lucena Spanish
Province of Macerata Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Nawanshahr Punjabi
Azores Time Portuguese via predicate surface "hasLanguageOfAdministration"
São Pedro
surface form: São Pedro (Angra do Heroísmo)
Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
São Bento
surface form: São Bento (Angra do Heroísmo)
Portuguese
Santa Luzia
surface form: Santa Luzia (Angra do Heroísmo)
Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Feteira Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Porto Judeu Portuguese language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Portuguese
Posto Santo Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mettur Tamil
Uttar Pradesh Expressways Industrial Development Authority Hindi
Vinces Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mocache Spanish via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfCountry"
Puebloviejo Spanish
Buena Fe Spanish
Nyanga District English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Northern Leyte Tagalog
surface form: Filipino
Northern Leyte English
Borongan Tagalog
surface form: Filipino
Borongan English
Celaya Spanish
Pickaway County, Ohio English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gif-sur-Yvette French
Ascona Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Stavanger municipality Norwegian
Scy-Chazelles French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Zhonglou District Chinese
Barueri Portuguese
Cotia Portuguese
Ōtorohanga District English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ōtorohanga District Māori via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"