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
Rothenburg (Switzerland) German
Tipitapa Spanish
Tipitapa Municipality Spanish
Ciudad Sandino Municipality Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
El Crucero Municipality Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mateare Municipality Spanish
San Francisco Libre Municipality Spanish
San Rafael del Sur Municipality Spanish language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Departamento de Managua Spanish
Instituto Nicaragüense de Deportes Spanish
Vsevolozhsky District Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Saint-Lambert French
Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Seljord Norwegian NERFINISHED
Dehradun district Hindi
Dehradun district Sanskrit
Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
West Betuwe Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Balasore Odia via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Balasore English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Automobile Club de Monaco French
Kirishsky District Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville French
Lypovets Uyezd Russian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Menzel Bourguiba Arabic
Conseil National French
Monaco-Ville French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
National Council building French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguageOfProceedings"
Monte-Carlo Television Festival French
Monte-Carlo Television Festival English
La Condamine district French via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfCountry"
Permanent Joint Council English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Permanent Joint Council French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Permanent Joint Council Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Regional Unit of Ithaca Greek
Pocheon Korean
Verkhnedneprovsk Ukrainian via predicate surface "languageOfLocalAdministration"
San Pedro, Laguna Filipino
San Pedro, Laguna English
Aire-sur-la-Lys French
Almere Dutch
Sabaragamuwa Sinhala NERFINISHED
Nordre Land Norwegian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Province of Palermo Italian
Bisacquino Italian
Pasig City Hall Filipino via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialBusiness"
Pasig City Hall English via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialBusiness"
Øystre Slidre Nynorsk via predicate surface "officialLanguageForm" NERFINISHED
Municipality of Pylaros Greek via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Ionian Islands regional unit of Kefalonia Greek via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"