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
Patna Municipal Corporation English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Municipality of Coquimbo Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Negombo Municipal Council Sinhala via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Negombo Municipal Council Tamil via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Negombo Municipal Council English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
La Habra Heights English
Huehuetenango, Guatemala Spanish
Copacabana Municipality Spanish
City and Borough of Sitka English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Karnali Province Nepali
Torgiano Italian language
surface form: Italian
Vila de Rei Portuguese
Golegã Portuguese
Porto de Mós Portuguese
HFD
surface form: Högsta förvaltningsdomstolen
Swedish
Fjell municipality Norwegian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Kętrzyn Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Astrakhan Russian
Kabankalan Filipino
Kabankalan English
Asaf Jah V Persian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Kwai Tsing District Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kwai Tsing District English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Vetralla Italian language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Italian
Castelnuovo di Farfa Italian
North Carolina State Bar English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
FCT Abuja English
Provisional Government of the Republic of China Chinese
Consejo de Monumentos Nacionales español
UNESCO World Heritage Site Residences of the Royal House of Savoy
surface form: Residences of the Royal House of Savoy
Italian
Decentralized Administration of Thessaly and Central Greece Greek
Farkadona municipality Greek via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Jiancaoping District Standard Chinese
Genzano di Roma Italian
Aburrá Metropolitan Area Spanish
Surat metropolitan region Gujarati
Surat metropolitan region Hindi
Parma and Piacenza ducal domain Italian
Jize County Standard Chinese
Nikolaevsky District Russian
Yekaterinoslav Russian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Government of Himachal Pradesh Hindi via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Roncesvalles Spanish
European Union NUTS region ES22
surface form: ES22
Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
European Union NUTS region ES22
surface form: ES22
Basque via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
municipality of Laarbeek
surface form: Laarbeek
Dutch
Laarbeek local government area
surface form: Laarbeek
Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Laarbeek municipality, North Brabant, Netherlands
surface form: Laarbeek
Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Northern Province, Rwanda Kinyarwanda
Northern Province, Rwanda English