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
Kiev Viceroyalty Russian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Tarashcha Uyezd Russian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Charlottenburg Town Hall German via predicate surface "primaryLanguageOfAdministration"
Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages (Canada) English
Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages (Canada) French NERFINISHED
Potter Valley Tribe English
Camprodon Catalan via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Camprodon Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Münsingen German
Rudraprayag district Hindi
Tiswadi taluka Konkani
Abanilla Spanish
Etoges
surface form: Étoges
French
Middelkerke Dutch
Sagbayan Filipino NERFINISHED
Sagbayan English
Cebu City Government Filipino via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Cebu City Government English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Puente de Ixtla Municipality Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ayala Municipality Spanish
Tlaltizapán de Zapata Municipality Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Totolapan Municipality Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Jonacatepec de Leandro Valle Municipality Spanish
Zacualpan de Amilpas Municipality Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Municipal government of Morelia Spanish
Košariská Slovak
Ivanka pri Dunaji Slovak via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Katzbach (Kaczawa) area Polish via predicate surface "currentOfficialLanguage"
Annet English via predicate surface "hasLanguageOfAdministration"
Palaikastro Greek via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Rinteln German NERFINISHED
Tàrrega Catalan NERFINISHED
Tàrrega Spanish
Tempio Pausania Italian
Valledoria Italian
Santa Maria Coghinas Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Priozersky District Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Brossard French
Giessenburg Dutch
Foissac French
Ras Jebel Arabic
Menzel Jemil Arabic
Tinja Arabic
El Alia Arabic (Tunisia) via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfCountry"
Ghezala Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Region A English via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Region A Zulu via predicate surface "languageOfficial" NERFINISHED
Region A Southern Sotho via predicate surface "languageOfficial" NERFINISHED
Region A Afrikaans via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Oubangui-Chari French