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
Royal Monetary Authority of Bhutan Dzongkha via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
municipality of Papantla
surface form: Municipality of Papantla
Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Vitacura Spanish
Vatry French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Stord Municipality Norwegian
Ministry of Science and Education of Azerbaijan Azerbaijani language
surface form: Azerbaijani
Yunus Emre Institute Turkish
Executive Committee of UEA Esperanto via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Place des Terreaux French via predicate surface "officialLanguageUsed"
UNESCO World Heritage Site Historic Site of Lyon
surface form: Historic Site of Lyon
French
Brazilian military dictatorship Portuguese
New Southbound Policy Mandarin Chinese
Qiddiya entertainment city Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Samtgemeinde Faßberg German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Confederation of Australian Motor Sport English
Singapore Armed Forces English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Singapore Armed Forces Malay via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Singapore Armed Forces Mandarin Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Singapore Armed Forces Tamil via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Merklingen German
Fort McDowell Indian Reservation English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Eeyou Istchee James Bay Territory French
Mourão Portuguese
Chamber of Deputies of Romania Romanian language
surface form: Romanian
Bârlad Romanian
Métropole Européenne de Lille French
Chimaltenango Department Spanish
WAEMU Commission French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ōtsu Japanese
Agenzia delle Dogane e dei Monopoli Italian
Gyeryong, South Chungcheong Province
surface form: Gyeryong
Korean via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Antiparos Greek
Lieutenancy area of Shetland English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Vergiate, Italy
surface form: Vergiate
Italian
Politics of the Basque Country Basque via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguages"
surface form: Basque language
Politics of the Basque Country Spanish language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguages"
Errenteria Basque
Errenteria Spanish
Tolitoli Indonesian
Government of Lesotho Sesotho via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Government of Lesotho English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mokhotlong District Sesotho via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mokhotlong District English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Royal Government of Bhutan Dzongkha via predicate surface "officialLanguageUsed"
Supreme Court of Bhutan Dzongkha via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
རྫོང་ཁ Bhutan via predicate surface "officialLanguageOf"
Niagara District English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Rakhine State Burmese
Ørsta Norwegian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Devon English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"