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
Jammu district Hindi
Government of Jammu and Kashmir (Union Territory) Urdu via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Government of Jammu and Kashmir (Union Territory) English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Government of Jammu and Kashmir (Union Territory) Kashmiri via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Government of Jammu and Kashmir (Union Territory) Dogri via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Government of Jammu and Kashmir (Union Territory) Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Government of Jammu and Kashmir (Union Territory) Punjabi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ciudad de Corrientes Spanish
Resistencia Spanish
Capital Department Spanish
Government of Corrientes Province Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Ituzaingó, Corrientes Province, Argentina Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Balanga City Filipino
Balanga City English
Regency Kingdom of Poland Polish
Dimitrovgrad Bulgarian
Tehri Garhwal district Hindi
Havlíčkův Brod Czech via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ballia Hindi
Deoria district Hindi
Saran district Hindi
Siwan district Hindi
Azamgarh division Hindi
Saas-Grund German
Saas-Almagell German
Saas-Balen German
Cờ Đỏ Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Thới Lai Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kharagauli Municipality Georgian via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
M-1 Rail English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
El Agustino Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
La Molina district
surface form: La Molina District
Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Neder-Betuwe Dutch
Lampung Selatan Regency Indonesian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Metro Indonesian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kingdom of Redonda English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
commune of Valparaíso Spanish
Ontario Liberal Party English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ontario Liberal Party French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Camerino Z. Mendoza Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Maltrata Spanish
La Perla Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, United States English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
municipal council of Getaria Basque via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
municipal council of Getaria Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Barrio de las Cortes Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Government of Anguilla English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Gmina Jastarnia Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Blansko Czech
Kuřim Czech NERFINISHED