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
CDB
surface form: Caribbean Development Bank
English
Board of Directors
surface form: Board of Directors of the Caribbean Development Bank
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Poet Laureate of Illinois English
Benito Juárez
surface form: Benito Juárez (Quintana Roo municipality)
Spanish
South-East District, Botswana English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Metropolitan Portugal Portuguese
Istmina Spanish
Condoto Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Herne German
Saint George Parish, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines English via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfAdministration"
Hamilton English via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfCountry"
Potsdam-Mittelmark German
National Mathematics Day (India) Hindi
National Mathematics Day (India) English
Vresse-sur-Semois French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Pleiskirchen German
Montefiascone Italian
Eurométropole de Strasbourg French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Poggio Mirteto Italian
Madaba Governorate Arabic
National Assembly of Benin French
Presidential Palace of Benin French via predicate surface "officialLanguageUsed"
Georgetown English
North-Eastern State English
municipality of Paros Greek
University of the Aegean (campus)
surface form: University of the Aegean
Greek via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Parco Naturale Regionale dei Monti Simbruini Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
South Mbundu Angola via predicate surface "isOfficialLanguageIn"
surface form: Angola (recognized among national languages)
Sai Kung Chinese
Sai Kung English
Yingze District Standard Chinese via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfCountry"
Çankırı Turkish
Céligny French
Camagüey Province Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kiryat Bialik Hebrew
Poggio Bustone Italian
Sovetsko-Gavansky District Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Estado Libre y Soberano de México Spanish
Municipality of Mytilene Greek via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
South Gyeongsang Province Korean
Scottish Qualifications Authority English
Tórshavn Faroese
Tórshavn Danish
Faroese government Faroese language via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
surface form: Faroese
Faroese government Danish via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Fårö Gutnish Swedish via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguageContext"
Rennesøy Norwegian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Alaska Superior Courts English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kadavu Province English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Government of Andhra Pradesh Telugu