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
Bulukumba Regency Indonesian
Savoonga English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Cortés Department Spanish
Llorente Filipino
Llorente English
Quinapondan Filipino
Quinapondan English
San Julian Filipino via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
San Julian English via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Sulat Tagalog via predicate surface "nationalLanguage"
surface form: Filipino
Sulat English
Taft Filipino
Taft English
Guiuan Filipino
Guiuan English
Can-avid Filipino
Can-avid English
Saint-Josse-ten-Noode French
Saint-Josse-ten-Noode Dutch
Cuauhtémoc Municipality Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Berane Montenegrin
Territory of Orleans English
2024 Summer Paralympics French
2024 Summer Paralympics English
YOG
surface form: Youth Olympic Games
English
YOG
surface form: Youth Olympic Games
French
IPC Swimming World Championships English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
IPC Powerlifting World Championships English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
International Narcotics Control Board Arabic
International Narcotics Control Board Chinese
International Narcotics Control Board English
International Narcotics Control Board French
International Narcotics Control Board Russian
International Narcotics Control Board Spanish
Hamar, Norway Norwegian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Stange municipality Norwegian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Løten municipality Norwegian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Moelv Bokmål via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Bokmål Norwegian
Oberhofen am Thunersee, Switzerland
surface form: Oberhofen am Thunersee
German
Västra Götaland Regional Council Swedish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
County Administrative Board of Västra Götaland Swedish
Bureau d’enquêtes et d’analyses pour la sécurité de l’aviation civile French
Ilorin East English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ifelodun English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Esch-Uelzecht Luxembourgish
Esch-Uelzecht French
Esch-Uelzecht German
Ghazipur Hindi
Azamgarh district Hindi
Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic Slovak