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
Ishikawa 2nd district Japanese via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Veavågen Norwegian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Fiskå Norwegian language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Norwegian
Kolnes Norwegian language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Norwegian
Stangeland Norwegian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ganei Tikva Hebrew via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Yehud-Monosson Hebrew via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tel Mond Regional Council Hebrew via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Gan Raveh Regional Council Hebrew via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ef'al Regional Council Hebrew via predicate surface "hadOfficialLanguage"
Gallarta (in Spanish and Basque)
surface form: Gallarta
Spanish
Gallarta (in Spanish and Basque)
surface form: Gallarta
Basque
Taoyuan International Airport Corporation Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Taoyuan International Airport Corporation Mandarin Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
DETEC German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
DETEC French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
DETEC Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
DETEC Romansh language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Romansh
UVEK German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
UVEK French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
UVEK Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
UVEK Romansh language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Romansh
Federal Office of Energy German
Federal Office of Energy French
Federal Office of Energy Italian
Federal Office of Energy Romansh language
surface form: Romansh
Urana Shire English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sogndal Nynorsk via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Eidfjord Norwegian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Heerenveen Dutch
BEAC
surface form: Bank of Central African States
French
Saint-Brieuc French
city of Bergen op Zoom
surface form: Bergen op Zoom
Dutch
Lepelstraat Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Las Vegas (Madrid) Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Lavagna Italian
Genoese Church hierarchy Latin via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Genoese Church hierarchy Italian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Syrian Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research Arabic
Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands
surface form: Leiden
Dutch
Velten German
Fürstenberg/Havel German
Zehdenick German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Leegebruch German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Izumo City Hall Japanese via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialBusiness"
Municipality of Trikala Greek via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Svortland Bokmål via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Norwegian Bokmål
Svortland Nynorsk via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Norwegian Nynorsk
Mahemdavad Gujarati
Mahemdavad Hindi