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
Calangianus Italian
Luogosanto Italian NERFINISHED
Oschiri Italian NERFINISHED
Loiri Porto San Paolo Italian
Badesi Italian
Aglientu Italian
Sant’Antonio di Gallura Italian
Telti Italian
Nughedu San Nicolò Italian
Bortigiadas Italian
Castelsardo Italian
Erula Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Laerru Italian
Martis Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Nulvi Italian NERFINISHED
Ossi Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tissi Italian
Usini Italian
Ittiri Italian
Wombleton English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Zhongzheng District Mandarin Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Argos Orestiko Greek via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Orestida Greek NERFINISHED
Nestorio (municipality) Greek
Mavrochori Greek via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Brigerbad German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Písek Czech via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
马鞍山 普通话
Ye Classical Chinese via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Welshpool Town Council area English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Welshpool Town Council area Welsh via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kazakhstan (to the north, across the border from the region)
surface form: Kazakhstan
Kazakh NERFINISHED
Kazakhstan (to the north, across the border from the region)
surface form: Kazakhstan
Russian
Municipality of Carlos P. Garcia, Bohol Filipino via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Municipality of Carlos P. Garcia, Bohol English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Alarm Forest, Saint Helena English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Prace Czech via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Football Federation of the Soviet Union Russian
City of Uri German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Littoral–Inner Carniola statistical region Slovene
Coastal–Karst statistical region Slovene via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Northwest Region of Cameroon English
Colwood, British Columbia English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Naha City Hall Japanese via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialBusiness"
Sirmaur district Hindi
Sirmaur district Pahari
Ambala division Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Radaur Hindi
Yamunanagar Assembly constituency Hindi via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialBusiness"
Radaur Assembly constituency Hindi via predicate surface "languageUsedInOfficialProceedings" NERFINISHED