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
Barangay Oranbo English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Pachitea Province Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Montilla Spanish
Villeneuve-Loubet French
Netanya Hebrew NERFINISHED
Garges-lès-Gonesse French
Peñaranda Filipino via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Peñaranda English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Flesberg Norwegian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Dąbrowa Górnicza Polish
Dayuan District Mandarin Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Atlatlahucan Municipality Spanish
Gangneung Korean via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Zittau German
Lauricocha Province Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Beecher Bay 22 English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ocuituco Municipality Spanish
Barangay Sta. Cruz Filipino
Barangay Sta. Cruz English
Cargèse French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Iultinsky District Russian
Khanewal Urdu NERFINISHED
Temoac Municipality Spanish
Barangay Sto. Tomas Filipino via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Barangay Sto. Tomas English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Yarowilca Province Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Alcañiz Spanish
Évry-Courcouronnes French
Province of Bolzano – South Tyrol German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Province of Bolzano – South Tyrol Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Province of Bolzano – South Tyrol Ladin via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Namdalseid Norwegian
California State Board of Equalization districts English via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialDescriptions"
CIJM French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
CIJM English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
CIJM Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Coral Sea Islands region
surface form: Coral Sea Islands Territory
English
Morgex Italian
Morgex French
Sempach German
Nottwil German
Eich German
Pramanta Greek
Melissourgoi Greek via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Laguna Blanca Spanish
San Gregorio Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Dettah English
Dettah Tłı̨chǫ (Dogrib) NERFINISHED
Ndilǫ English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Town of Elba, New York English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"