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
Carabayllo Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sultanate of Egypt Arabic
Sahel Selim Arabic
Umtata English
Umtata Afrikaans
Umtata isiXhosa
Médio Tejo intermunicipal community
surface form: Médio Tejo Intermunicipal Community
Portuguese
City of Naha Japanese
Baix Ebre Catalan
Baix Ebre Spanish
San Ramón
surface form: San Ramón, Huixquilucan
Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gilgit-Baltistan Supreme Appellate Court English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gilgit-Baltistan Supreme Appellate Court Urdu language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Urdu
canton of Tournefeuille French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Municipality of Anderlecht French
Municipality of Anderlecht Dutch
Cureghem French via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Cureghem Dutch via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Houyet French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Southern Governorate (Bahrain) Arabic
Maval taluka Marathi language
surface form: Marathi
Renkum Dutch
Kula Serbian
Odzaci
surface form: Odžaci
Serbian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Vantaa Finnish
Vantaa Swedish language
surface form: Swedish
Nizhnekamsk Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Nizhnekamsk Tatar language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Tatar
Gualberto Villarroel Province Spanish
Hopedale English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Pittsburgh City Council English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Roda de Ter Catalan via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Roda de Ter Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Alcover Catalan via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Alcover Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
L'Étang-la-Ville French
Saint-Mard French
Cessy French
Gros Islet District English
Gmina Skała Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Samalkha Hindi
District Administration Panipat Hindi via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
District Administration Panipat English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Samalkha tehsil Hindi via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Tashkurgan Standard Chinese via predicate surface "officialLanguageAtCountryLevel"
Yıldırım District Turkish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Rheinberg German
Organization of Islamic Cooperation member state The Gambia
surface form: The Gambia
English
Baghdati Municipality Georgian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Préfecture de Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon French