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
Congress
surface form: Congress of Local and Regional Authorities
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Congress
surface form: Congress of Local and Regional Authorities
French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Santiago Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Manco Kapac Province Spanish
Seneffe French
Itapetininga Portuguese
Carchi Province Spanish
Kolpino Russian
Bilhères French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
North Mamuju Regency Indonesian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Serbia and Greece Serbian
Serbia and Greece Greek
Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María Spanish
Bahadurgarh Hindi
Vestre Slidre municipality
surface form: Vestre Slidre
Nynorsk via predicate surface "officialLanguageForm"
Zinacantepec Spanish
Villacarrillo Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Province of Albacete Spanish
Jackson, South Carolina English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Catanduanes Filipino
Catanduanes English
Sundbyvester Danish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Marta Italian
Arni Tamil
Sultan of Delhi Persian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Gold Coast City Council area English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Briollay French
MacArthur
surface form: MacArthur, West Virginia
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Lester English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Biliran Province Filipino
Biliran Province English
Kawayan Filipino via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kawayan English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Culaba Filipino via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Culaba English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Caibiran Filipino via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Caibiran English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
São Pedro
surface form: São Pedro (Ponta Delgada)
Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
São José
surface form: São José (Ponta Delgada)
Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Fajã de Baixo Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Relva Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese
Fenais da Luz Portuguese
Feteiras Portuguese language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Portuguese
Ginetes Portuguese
Pilar da Bretanha Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Santa Bárbara
surface form: Santa Bárbara (Ponta Delgada)
Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Rosto de Cão (São Roque) Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Covoada Portuguese language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Portuguese
Løten Norwegian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Ringsaker Bokmål via predicate surface "languageOfficial"