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
Mogilany Polish
Kocmyrzów-Luborzyca Polish
Michałowice Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Śródmieście, Łódź Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Lower Manhattan Development Corporation English
Sorsogon Filipino
Sorsogon English
Bulandshahr Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Baghpat Hindi
Vendenheim French
Sully, Saône-et-Loire, France
surface form: Sully, Saône-et-Loire
French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Montcresson, Loiret, France
surface form: Montcresson
French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Nogales Spanish
Government of Nunavut Inuktitut
Government of Nunavut English
Government of Nunavut French
Government of Nunavut Inuinnaqtun
Grise Fiord Inuktitut
Grise Fiord English
Simonszand none via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ibadan Local Government English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Galle District Sinhala via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Municipality of Ioannina Greek
Moro Province English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Saulx-les-Chartreux French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Belgorod region
surface form: Belgorod Oblast
Russian
Presidential Palace of Honduras Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialUse"
Schignano Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tetovo Macedonian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Caslano Italian
Val-d'Illiez French
Les Arcs-sur-Argens French
Arcore Italian language
surface form: Italian
Director-General of the OPCW Technical Secretariat Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Director-General of the OPCW Technical Secretariat Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Director-General of the OPCW Technical Secretariat English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Director-General of the OPCW Technical Secretariat French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Director-General of the OPCW Technical Secretariat Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Director-General of the OPCW Technical Secretariat Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Penne Italian language
surface form: Italian
Conseil de la langue française et de la politique linguistique (Belgium)
surface form: Conseil de la langue française et de la politique linguistique
French via predicate surface "officialLanguageConcerned"
CODOFIL French via predicate surface "officialLanguageFocus"
Barrio de Ibiza Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Barrio de Pacífico Spanish
Pacífico neighborhood Spanish
Government of Senegal French via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Senegalese Football Federation French
Khalsa Sarkar Persian language
surface form: Persian
Pontypool deanery English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Pontypool deanery Welsh via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"