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
Mauricie French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Puerto Navarino Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ujae Marshallese
Ujae English
Torrelaguna Spanish
Khobar Arabic
Zouk Mikael Arabic
Hôtel de Ville de Rueil-Malmaison French via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Kingdom of SHS Serbo-Croatian
Kingdom of SHS Slovene
Harsusi language none via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguageOf"
Mahra Governorate Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Cuenca Spanish
Terracina Italian
Lenola Italian
Pontinia Italian
Maenza Italian
Anguillara Sabazia Italian
Luz Portuguese
Guadalupe Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Blairmore Holdings English via predicate surface "hasLanguageOfOfficialDocuments"
Bremgarten, Aargau, Switzerland German
World Olympians Association English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
El Porvenir Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Lagunes District French
Sora Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ferentino Italian language
surface form: Italian
Veroli Italian
Grotte di Castro Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
1996 Japanese general election Japanese via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialMaterials"
Dragør Municipality Danish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Saarlouis German
Xinzhou Standard Chinese
Lüliang Standard Chinese
Haicheng District Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Priego de Córdoba Spanish
Central Mamuju Regency Indonesian
Øystre Slidre municipality
surface form: Øystre Slidre
Bokmål via predicate surface "officialLanguageForm"
Halland County Swedish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sonipat Hindi
Opochetsky District Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Rüdnitz German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Corsier French
Zeta Banovina Serbo-Croatian
Municipality of Heraklion Greek
Drohobych Oblast Ukrainian via predicate surface "governmentLanguage"
Drohobych Oblast Russian via predicate surface "governmentLanguage"
Bathurst Island English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hampton, New York English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mogi Guaçu Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"