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
Group of States against Corruption French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
canton of Schaffhausen German
Lemgo German
Fuchu, Tokyo Japanese
Újvidék Serbian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Karak Governorate Arabic
Tsukuba Express (nearby)
surface form: Tsukuba Express
Japanese
Santiponce Spanish
Pyrgos municipality Greek via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Seal of the Illinois General Assembly English
Rilland Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Schwartzkopffstraße, 10115 Berlin German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
ALBA-TCP Spanish
ALBA-TCP English
ALBA-TCP French
ALBA-TCP Portuguese
ALBA-TCP Dutch
Karnal division Hindi
Municipal Corporation of Panipat Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Municipal Corporation of Panipat English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
McLeod Ganj Hindi
Sirmour district Hindi
Kingdom of Afghanistan Pashto language
surface form: Pashto
Kingdom of Afghanistan Dari
Velavadar Gujarati via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Velavadar Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
National Commission on State Language of Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyz language via predicate surface "officialLanguageConcerned"
Brügg, Canton of Bern, Switzerland
surface form: Brügg
German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Beaumont, Puy-de-Dôme, France French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Valentano Italian
Scottish Government headquarters English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Scottish Government headquarters Scottish Gaelic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Scottish Government headquarters Scots via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Scottish Fiscal Commission English
Ciudad Acuña Spanish
Morehouse
surface form: Morehouse, New York
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Poblado de San Lorenzo de Aburrá Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Medellín, Extremadura, Spain Spanish
Altstadtrathaus Braunschweig German via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialUse"
Loretteville French
Mircea the Elder Church Slavonic via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Berdyansk Raion Ukrainian via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Ajman Municipality and Planning Department Arabic
Banjul Division English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kaithal Hindi
Kaithal Haryanvi
Turkic nobility of Delhi Persian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Lazo Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Khor Fakkan Arabic
Pecetto Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"