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
Isella Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Quarazza Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Cabinet-Den Uyl Dutch via predicate surface "languageOfGovernment"
Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio español
Subsecretaría de las Culturas y las Artes español
Varos Greek via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Decentralized Administration of Aegean Greek
Punjab Hill States Agency English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Gujarat is considered a valuable and prominent state in Western India
surface form: Gujarat
Gujarati
Gujarat is considered a valuable and prominent state in Western India
surface form: Gujarat
Hindi
Hinohara Japanese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Seville Spanish
Azángaro Province Spanish
Islands District Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Islands District English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mabscott, West Virginia English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Xinghualing District Standard Chinese via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Ochakiv Uyezd Russian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Karnataka and Kerala
surface form: Karnataka
Kannada
Karnataka and Kerala
surface form: Kerala
Malayalam
Gausdal Norwegian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Waukon, Iowa English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Rafah (Egypt) Arabic
Albay Filipino
Albay English
UNESCO Secretariat Arabic via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
UNESCO Secretariat Chinese via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
UNESCO Secretariat English via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
UNESCO Secretariat French via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
UNESCO Secretariat Russian via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
UNESCO Secretariat Spanish via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Bragança Paulista Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese
Acton English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Galați County Romanian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Gorna Oryahovitsa Bulgarian
Gabrovo Province Bulgarian
European Data Protection Board English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
European Data Protection Board French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
European Data Protection Board German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
government of Mauritania
surface form: Government of Mauritania
Arabic via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
government of Mauritania
surface form: Government of Mauritania
French via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Qatar Civil Aviation Authority Arabic
Government of Qatar Arabic
Al Daayen Municipality Arabic
Banaadir Regional Administration Somali via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Batman Province Turkish via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Devanahalli Kannada
Bangalore International Airport Limited English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bangalore International Airport Limited Kannada via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Attara Kacheri Kannada via predicate surface "hasLanguageOfAdministration"