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
Andean Community member states Spanish via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Telfes im Stubai German
Faaborg-Midtfyn Municipality Danish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Dübendorf German
Härryda Municipality Swedish
Mittelberg im Pitztal German
Kingdom of Busoga Lusoga
Kingdom of Busoga English
Municipal Committee Chenab Nagar Urdu via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Municipal Committee Chenab Nagar English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Peck English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Lenore
surface form: Lenore, Idaho
English
Jūrmala Latvian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Zhibiani Georgian language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Vyšné Hágy Slovak via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Fraubrunnen German
Rubigen German
Allmendingen German NERFINISHED
Kirchdorf (BE) German
Walkringen German
Hasle bei Burgdorf (depending on boundary changes)
surface form: Hasle bei Burgdorf
German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Emmental administrative district German
Thun administrative district German
Parliament of Slovenia Slovene
Massachusetts House district English via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialActs"
Kadena, Okinawa Japanese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Vanylven Municipality Norwegian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Torres Novas Portuguese
President of Costa Rica Spanish via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfOffice"
Puerto San Julián Spanish
Central Governorate, Bahrain Arabic via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Stewarttown English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Claremont English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Barangay Manggahan Filipino via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Barangay Manggahan English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Nedre Eiker Bokmål via predicate surface "officialLanguageForm" NERFINISHED
Vila do Corvo Portuguese
Municipality of Corvo Portuguese
Vila do Corvo parish Portuguese
Chardonne French
Langensalza German
President of Latvia Latvian via predicate surface "officialLanguageUsed"
Baltic Assembly Estonian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Baltic Assembly Latvian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Baltic Assembly Lithuanian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Baltic Assembly English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Qadian Punjabi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Sintiki Greek via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Skotoussa Greek via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Nigrita Greek