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
Main Island
surface form: Main Island (Bermuda)
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Finland Exclusive Economic Zone Finnish via predicate surface "hasLanguageOfAdministration"
Finland Exclusive Economic Zone Swedish via predicate surface "hasLanguageOfAdministration"
Wissenkerke Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bryansk area
surface form: Bryansk Oblast
Russian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Non-Governmental Organizations Branch Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Non-Governmental Organizations Branch Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Non-Governmental Organizations Branch English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Non-Governmental Organizations Branch French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Non-Governmental Organizations Branch Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Non-Governmental Organizations Branch Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kea-Kythnos Greek
Racing Club de Strasbourg Alsace French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Longuda English via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage"
Dibba Al-Hisn Arabic
Sharjah Airport International Free Zone Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sharjah Airport International Free Zone English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Niamey Region French
Helsinki Senate Square Finnish via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfLocation"
Helsinki Senate Square Swedish via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfLocation"
Ministry of Finance of Finland Finnish
Ministry of Finance of Finland Swedish
Customs of Finland Finnish language
surface form: Finnish
Customs of Finland Swedish
Statistics Finland Finnish
Statistics Finland Swedish language
surface form: Swedish
Finnish law Finnish
Finnish law Swedish
United Nations Forum on Forests Arabic
United Nations Forum on Forests Chinese
United Nations Forum on Forests English
United Nations Forum on Forests French
United Nations Forum on Forests Russian
United Nations Forum on Forests Spanish
Jeremie, Saint-Domingue
surface form: Jérémie, Saint-Domingue
French via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Corporation of St. George’s English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Territory of Papua English
New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Calzada de Calatrava Spanish
Riihimäki, Finland
surface form: Riihimäki
Finnish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kalinin Oblast Russian via predicate surface "hadOfficialLanguage"
Guaratinguetá Portuguese
Dover, Vermont English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Pully, Switzerland
surface form: Pully
French
Shaoxing Standard Chinese
Vöhrenbach German
Municipality of Valencia Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Municipality of Valencia Valencian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts Macedonian
Group of States against Corruption English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"