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
Khairatabad English
South Vietnam Vietnamese
Etnedal municipality Norwegian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Barrackpore Assembly constituency Bengali via predicate surface "hasLanguageOfAdministration"
Barrackpore Assembly constituency English via predicate surface "hasLanguageOfAdministration"
Potenza Italian
Kiryat Motzkin Hebrew
Qiuxian County Standard Chinese
Uruguayan Antarctic Institute Spanish via predicate surface "officialLanguageUsed"
Zalău Romanian language
surface form: Romanian
Cumaná Province Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Rivière Désert French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Maniwaki French
NKVD camps Russian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Syrian Arabic via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfCountryOfOrigin"
Kanan Japanese
Limenas Thasou Greek
Thasos regional unit Greek via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Manama Arabic
Vogelgrun French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Zuni Pueblo Zuni language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Zuni Pueblo English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Torrent Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Torrent Catalan via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Valencian
Ontinyent Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ontinyent Catalan via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Valencian
Navsari Gujarati
Navsari Hindi
SCRC
surface form: Sunshine Coast Regional Council
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Itanhaém Portuguese language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Portuguese
Carabaya Province Spanish
Murnau am Staffelsee German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Regional District of Central Okanagan English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ortona Italian
Tunapuna–Piarco region English
Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award English
Shanghai Municipal Council English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Shanghai Municipal Council Shanghainese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Shanghai Municipal Council Mandarin Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Shanghai Municipal Council Japanese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Shanghai Municipal Council French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Nationalist Government of China Chinese
Nationalist Government of China Mandarin Chinese
surface form: Mandarin
municipality of Voorst Dutch
Cambridge Department of Public Works English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Stadhuis Utrecht Dutch via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialUse"
Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ministry of the Environment of Japan Japanese
Kharkov Governorate Russian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Canton of Lucerne German