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
San Bartolomé Coatepec Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ghedi Italian
Tin-Essako French
Tobruk District Arabic
Hérouville-Saint-Clair French
Quetzaltenango Department Spanish
district of Büderich
surface form: Büderich (Wesel)
German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Alcaldía Cuajimalpa de Morelos Spanish
Cheboksary Russian
Muscat Governorate Arabic
Vik Municipality Norwegian language
surface form: Norwegian
Châteauguay French
San Juan Yautepec Spanish
Qinghe
surface form: Qinghe Subdistrict
Mandarin Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Batea Catalan via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Batea Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bot Catalan
Bot Spanish
Corbera d'Ebre Catalan via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Corbera d'Ebre Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Horta de Sant Joan Catalan via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Horta de Sant Joan Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
La Fatarella Catalan
La Fatarella Spanish
La Pobla de Massaluca Catalan
La Pobla de Massaluca Spanish
Prat de Comte Catalan
Prat de Comte Spanish
Vilalba dels Arcs Catalan
Vilalba dels Arcs Spanish
Matarranya Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Oued ed-Dahab Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Frameries French via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Rădăuți Romanian
Metropolitan Archbishop of Poitiers French via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Boston town wards English via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialUse"
World Athletics Relays English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
World Athletics Relays French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mullaitivu District Tamil
Mullaitivu District Sinhala
Vinaròs Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Vinaròs Catalan via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
surface form: Valencian
Gharaunda Hindi
Bački Petrovac Serbian language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Serbian
Bački Petrovac Slovak via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Northern Region of Ghana English
The Residency, Malacca English via predicate surface "languageOfLocalAdministration"
Charlestown, Wisconsin, United States English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Nyíregyháza Hungarian
Midwest Province of the Society of Jesus English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"