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
Jódar Spanish
Mancha Real Spanish
Gurdaspur Punjabi language
surface form: Punjabi
Principality of Montenegro Montenegrin
Principality of Montenegro Serbian
Iğdır Turkish
Sinjai Regency Indonesian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Angoon, Alaska English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Nagaur Hindi
Nagaur Rajasthani
Minnesund Bokmål via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Norwegian Bokmål
Ramanagara district Kannada
Deinze, Belgium
surface form: Deinze
Dutch
Celle Ligure Italian
canton of Yutz French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Volmerange-les-Mines French
Basse-Ham French
Entrange French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Macul (town)
surface form: Macul
Spanish
Municipality of Macul Spanish
Quinta Bella Spanish via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfRegion"
Tervola Finnish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Procuraduría de la Defensa del Contribuyente español
Kōtō Japanese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Murray County English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
state of Colima
surface form: Colima
Spanish
Kitgum English
Angústias Portuguese language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Portuguese
Flamengos Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Feteira Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Salão Portuguese via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Castelo Branco
surface form: Castelo Branco (Faial)
Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
National Records of Scotland English
Una district Hindi
Una district English
Department of Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs, Andaman and Nicobar Administration English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Department of Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs, Andaman and Nicobar Administration Hindi via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Zoological Survey of India English
Zoological Survey of India Hindi
Ministry of Civil Aviation (India) Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ministry of Civil Aviation (India) English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Staff Selection Commission Hindi
Staff Selection Commission English
Meadowbrook English
Hope Pastures English via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfCountry"
St. Thomas in the East English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kamieskroon Afrikaans via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage"
Kamieskroon English via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage"
Kamieskroon isiZulu via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage"
Dingolfing, Germany
surface form: Dingolfing
German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"