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
Monastir Arabic
Nouaceur Province Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Nouaceur Province Amazigh via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Saharanpur district Hindi
Bilaspur
surface form: Bilaspur, Yamunanagar
Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bilaspur
surface form: Bilaspur, Yamunanagar
Haryanvi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Viddalba Italian
Sungai Penuh Indonesian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Lurigancho-Chosica District Spanish
Golmud Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Countess of Burgundy (Franche-Comté) Old French via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Italo-Norman Latin via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage" NERFINISHED
Italo-Norman Greek via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Italo-Norman Arabic via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage" NERFINISHED
Commissione Territorio, ambiente, beni ambientali Italian
Jabal al Akhdar District Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
البيضاء العربية
El Beida Arabic
The Met English via predicate surface "primaryLanguageOfAdministration"
Lucerne region German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Lungern German
Kratovo Macedonian
Kriva Palanka Macedonian
Main Square of Sopron Hungarian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguageEnvironment"
Zhoushan City Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Pravonín Czech via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Leopoldov Prison Slovak via predicate surface "hasLanguageOfAdministration"
Embassy of the United Kingdom in Berlin English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Embassy of the United Kingdom in Berlin German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Canadian territories English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Canadian territories French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Fulpmes German
Mieders German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Schönberg im Stubaital German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kvinnherad Municipality Norwegian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Austevoll Municipality Norwegian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Proença-a-Nova Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Wuling District Standard Chinese
Adliswil German
Alstahaug Norwegian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
San Miguel, Petén Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Lisburn and Castlereagh district English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Jiutepec Municipality Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Quảng Nam province Vietnamese
Khánh Hòa province Vietnamese NERFINISHED
Narón Galician
Narón Spanish
Lillehammer municipality Norwegian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Jammu district Dogri NERFINISHED
Jammu district Urdu NERFINISHED