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
Ostermundigen German NERFINISHED
Kirchlindach German
Loznica Serbian NERFINISHED
Panevėžys County Lithuanian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Zalaegerszeg Hungarian
Mafraq Arabic
Brienz German
village of Iseltwald
surface form: Iseltwald
German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Iseltwald German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Niederried bei Interlaken German
Gadmen German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
La Unión Spanish
Tielt-Winge Dutch
Thornville, Ohio English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tiba Arabic
Aubigny-sur-Nère French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Layyah Urdu NERFINISHED
Layyah English
Rajanpur Urdu NERFINISHED
Jampur Urdu NERFINISHED
Jampur English
Ahmedpur East Urdu NERFINISHED
Dunyapur Urdu NERFINISHED
East Sepik Province English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
East Sepik Province Tok Pisin via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
East Sepik Province Hiri Motu via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Sandaun Province English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sandaun Province Tok Pisin via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Sandaun Province Hiri Motu via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Meckesheim German
Necochea Spanish
La Molina, Lima, Peru
surface form: La Molina
Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Vitarte Spanish
Poltava Oblast Ukrainian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Radomysl Uyezd Russian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Pasaman Regency Indonesian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Dharmasraya Regency Indonesian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
San Andrés Tuxtla Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Chamoli district Hindi
Srinagar (Garhwal) Hindi
Smokvica Macedonian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Crailsheim German
La Hague French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
INSEE 50 (Manche)
surface form: Manche
French
Berezhany Raion Ukrainian
Canta Spanish
Olbia Italian
Arzachena Italian
Santa Teresa Gallura Italian
Aggius Italian