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
Modern Spanish Spanish Sahara via predicate surface "officialLanguageOf"
surface form: Western Sahara
Samastipur Hindi
Samastipur Urdu language
surface form: Urdu
Pando Department Spanish
Korydallos Greek via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Union City Transit English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
historic centre of Naples Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kennedy Park English
Second Judicial Circuit of South Dakota English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Deçan Albanian
Maykop, Russia
surface form: Maykop
Russian
Maykop, Russia
surface form: Maykop
Adyghe
Mandar Indonesian via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage"
Gowa Regency Indonesian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sidenreng Rappang Regency Indonesian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Takalar Regency Indonesian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ootischenia, British Columbia English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Fruitvale, British Columbia English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Community Parliament English
Community Parliament French
Community Parliament Portuguese
Tangtse Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tangtse Urdu language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Urdu
North Beveland Dutch
City of Port Adelaide Enfield English
Averøy Municipality Norwegian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
mainland Norway Norwegian language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Norwegian
States of Alderney English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Chief Pleas of Sark English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Chief Pleas of Sark French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Novi Pazar Serbian language
surface form: Serbian
Mamasa Regency Indonesian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Nevada Board of Regents English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality Xhosa via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: isiXhosa
Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality Afrikaans via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Almaty Region Kazakh via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Almaty Region Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Chumbivilcas Province Spanish
Carabayllo District Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Lakki Marwat District Urdu language
surface form: Urdu
Gulou District Chinese
Jundiaí Portuguese
Saharsa Hindi
Chaibasa Hindi
Chaibasa Urdu language
surface form: Urdu
Chaibasa English
CONMEBOL Sudamericana Spanish
CONMEBOL Sudamericana Portuguese
Wendake French