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
Maienfeld German
Zollikofen German
Burgdorf German
Magdalena Contreras borough Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
XXV Olympic Winter Games English
XXV Olympic Winter Games French
XXV Olympic Winter Games Italian
Place du Capitole French via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfLocation"
Jasper, Alberta English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Orizaba, Veracruz Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ciudad Mendoza, Veracruz Spanish
Council of Heads of State Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Council of Heads of State English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Council of Foreign Ministers Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Executive Committee
surface form: Executive Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States
Russian
Comune di Trapani Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
town of Bonifacio
surface form: Bonifacio
French
Paradiso Italian
Agno Italian
Άρειος Πάγος ελληνική γλώσσα via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Second Republic (Portugal) Portuguese
I-League English
I-League Hindi
Robert Wichard Pohl Prize German
International Union of Pure and Applied Physics English
Cayo District English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Orange Walk District English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Coquelles French
Wangen-Brüttisellen German
DEB German
Schweinfurt German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bagneux French
Caldwell County
surface form: Caldwell County, Texas
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kalasan District Indonesian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Massongex French
Vionnaz French
Mawr Welsh via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mawr English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Сыктывкар русский язык
Сыктывкар коми язык
Sørreisa Norwegian language via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
surface form: Norwegian
Capesterre-de-Marie-Galante French
Municipality of Lefkada Greek
Amman Governorate Arabic
Plesetsk Russian
Banda Aceh Indonesian
New Mexico Public Education Department English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
House of the Exilarchs Aramaic via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
House of the Exilarchs Hebrew via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Wieliczka County Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"