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
Alburquerque, Spain Spanish
Vani Municipality Georgian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Castelmayran French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
canton of Castelsarrasin French via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Barry-d’Islemade French
Les Barthes French
Labastide-du-Temple French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Angeville French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Garganvillar French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Burlada Spanish
Burlata Spanish
Burlata Basque
Detroit Regional Convention Facility Authority English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Prato allo Stelvio German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Prato allo Stelvio Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Val Venosta Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Val Venosta German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Stato da Mar Venetian
Stato da Mar Latin
Bergambacht Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Braintree District English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Rural Municipality of Mossey River English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Winnipegosis, Manitoba English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Queen of Brazil Portuguese
Shire of Livingstone English
Terjola Municipality Georgian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Köniz German
Ittigen German
Muri bei Bern German
Bolligen German
Wohlen bei Bern German
Kehrsatz German
Belp German
Lyss German
Oliy Majlis of Uzbekistan Uzbek via predicate surface "officialLanguageUsed"
Phuket Province Thai
Carlow–Kilkenny Irish
Den české státnosti čeština via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
King of Babylon Akkadian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
King of Babylon Sumerian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Stryn Municipality Norwegian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Condeixa-a-Nova Portuguese
Wulai District Mandarin Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ilopango Spanish
La Paz Department Spanish
Principality of Bulgaria Bulgarian
commune of Écouen
surface form: Écouen
French
commune of Montmagny
surface form: Montmagny
French
commune of Montmorency
surface form: Montmorency
French
commune of Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt
surface form: Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt
French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"