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
Littoral Region of Cameroon French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Littoral Region of Cameroon English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Margherita, Assam Assamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Margherita, Assam English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Margherita subdivision Assamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Binjai Indonesian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Baja Hungarian language
surface form: Hungarian
Châtellerault French
Bourbon France French
Qubadli District Azerbaijani
Zangilan District Azerbaijani language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Azerbaijani
borough of Cuajimalpa de Morelos
surface form: Cuajimalpa de Morelos
Spanish
Årdal Municipality Norwegian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Palwal Hindi
Eurostat English
Eurostat French
Eurostat German
Silvaplana German
Poprad Slovak language
surface form: Slovak
Lauffen am Neckar German
Volketswil German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
United Team of Germany German via predicate surface "hadOfficialLanguage"
Seal of the State of Nevada English
Chandannagar subdivision Bengali
Isaac Region English
Santana
surface form: Santana (Madeira)
Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Curral das Freiras Portuguese
Trongsa District Dzongkha
Concello de Santiago de Compostela Galician
Concello de Santiago de Compostela Spanish
Commune of Quilpué Spanish
Marga Marga Province Spanish
La Paz Centro Spanish
Cartago Province Spanish
Cartago Spanish
British colonial authorities in India English
Principality of Moldavia Romanian
Gura Humorului Romanian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
The Glove English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Colony of New Zealand English
Porlezza Italian
Choëx French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
EIT Executive Committee English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
EIT Executive Committee other official languages of the European Union via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tony Award for Best Costume Design of a Play English
Pimpri-Chinchwad Marathi language
surface form: Marathi
Vlieland Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Boussy-Saint-Antoine French
Bruyères-le-Châtel French
Chelsea
surface form: Chelsea, Quebec
French