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
Commugny French
Gmina Bukowina Tatrzańska Polish
Gmina Szaflary Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Keylong Hindi
Keylong Lahauli dialects
Kinnaur district Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Reasi district Dogri NERFINISHED
Reasi district Hindi
Reasi district Urdu NERFINISHED
Reasi district English
Katra Hindi
Katra Urdu NERFINISHED
Campus Concepción Spanish
Marijampolė Lithuanian
Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu French
Tepoztlán Municipality Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Küssnacht am Rigi German
Atzacan Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Paray-Vieille-Poste, France
surface form: Paray-Vieille-Poste
French
Leissigen German
Gwangju, Gyeonggi Korean
Saint-Maur-des-Fossés French
Shenkeng District Mandarin Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Schafhausen German
Prabumulih Indonesian
Tajik State Medical University Russian
Tajik State Medical University Tajik
Jizbice Czech via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Celso Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Neukieritzsch German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Sigüenza Spanish
Joinville-le-Pont French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Löstertal German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Distrito Capital Spanish
Pinsk District Belarusian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Pinsk District Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Oujda Arabic
Oujda Amazigh NERFINISHED
Liptovská Lúžna Slovak via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
NCAA Division III Women’s Cross Country Championships English via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialUse"
Villa Alegre Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Governor of Montserrat English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Crans-près-Céligny French
Hesse, Germany
surface form: Hesse
German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Gardner Parks and Recreation Department English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
St. James Township Hall English via predicate surface "primaryLanguageOfAdministration"
Punilla Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Grabs, Switzerland
surface form: Grabs
German
Akishima Japanese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Nogent-sur-Marne French