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
Scherpenzeel Dutch
Ixtapaluca Spanish
Chontales Department Spanish
Padang Pariaman Regency Indonesian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sion, Valais French
Ziegelstein German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mashonaland Central Province English
Ibrahim of Ghazni Persian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Boaco Department Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ederveen Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Biryuch Russian
Сентандреја мађарски језик via predicate surface "службениЈезик"
Shahbad Markanda Hindi
Kathua Dogri
Kathua Hindi
Kathua Urdu language
surface form: Urdu
Kathua English
Municipal Corporation Pathankot Punjabi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
QH
surface form: Qinghai
Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Swan
surface form: Swan, Iowa
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Rawitsch German via predicate surface "hasLanguageOfAdministration"
Trévières canton French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sør-Varanger Norwegian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sør-Varanger Municipality
surface form: Sør-Varanger
Norwegian language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Norwegian
Santa Ana, Petén Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Saint-Roch-de-l’Achigan French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tosno Russian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Tikhvinsky District Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Department of State of Puerto Rico Spanish
Department of State of Puerto Rico English
Carignan French
Baloncesto Fuenlabrada Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Allonnes French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gulen Municipality Norwegian language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Norwegian
Formello Italian
Mylopotamos municipality Greek via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
National Bank of Tajikistan Tajik via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Łowicz Polish
Chevry French
Communauté d'agglomération Val Parisis French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gandesa Catalan via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gandesa Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council English
Seljuk institutions Persian language via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
surface form: Persian
Datça Turkish via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Municipality of Tunis Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
British administration in Ireland English
City of Brussels municipal authorities French
City of Brussels municipal authorities Dutch
Parc / Park metro station French