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
First Provisional Government Greek via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Huehuetenango Department Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Oshakati English
Ohangwena Region English
Sandnes Norwegian Bokmål
Münklingen German
Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic Russian
Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic Uzbek
Muharraq Governorate Arabic
Winnebago, Nebraska English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Saint-Herblain French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mirabel French
Saint-Jérôme French
Candelaria
surface form: Candelaria, Zambales
Filipino via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Candelaria
surface form: Candelaria, Zambales
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Dhudike Punjabi language
surface form: Punjabi
World Table Tennis Championships English
Bad Nauheim German
Dorval French
British Esperanto Association Esperanto
British Esperanto Association English
Jefferson, Oregon English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Garches French
Vaucresson French
Taisho Ward Japanese
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada English
Alta Verapaz Department Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Qalqilya Governorate Arabic
Laurentides administrative region French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tohono O'odham Nation Reservation English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tohono O'odham Nation Reservation Tohono Oʼodham language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: O'odham language
Metlakatla First Nation Sm’álgyax via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Metlakatla First Nation English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Burg, Aargau German
Grand-Bourg French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Greater Amman Municipality Arabic
Entzheim French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ali ibn Umar Arabic via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Kicukiro District Kinyarwanda via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kicukiro District French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kicukiro District English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kicukiro District Swahili language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Swahili
commune of Garges-lès-Gonesse
surface form: Garges-lès-Gonesse
French
commune of Villiers-le-Bel
surface form: Villiers-le-Bel
French
Phuket Provincial Administration Thai language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Angaraes Province Spanish
San Bartolomé Tlaltelulco Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Friuli Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Corsico Italian