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
Municipality of Kalamaria Greek
Municipality of Pylaia-Chortiatis Greek via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Songhees Indian Reserve No. 1 English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Urdaneta Filipino via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Urdaneta English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Vijayapuram Telugu NERFINISHED
Lierde Dutch
Jacksonville, Missouri English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
City of Kauniainen Finnish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
City of Kauniainen Swedish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Podporozhye Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Fosnes Norwegian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Sartirana Lomellina, Italy
surface form: Sartirana Lomellina
Italian
Porto Novo Portuguese via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfCountry" NERFINISHED
Ribeira Grande Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Hol Norwegian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Jura (Switzerland)
surface form: Jura (canton)
French
Alle French
Damphreux French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Beurnevésin French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bure French
Courchavon French
Grandfontaine French
Vendlincourt French
Tirupati urban area Telugu NERFINISHED
Changle Standard Chinese
Kamuthi Tamil NERFINISHED
Sayalgudi Tamil NERFINISHED
Ottoman Empire in the Balkans Ottoman Turkish NERFINISHED
Northern Ostrobothnia Finnish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Oulu sub-region Finnish via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Kokemäki Finnish
Sosva labor camp Russian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Jasdan Gujarati NERFINISHED
Jasdan Hindi
Jasdan, Rajkot district, Gujarat, India
surface form: Jasdan
Gujarati
Jasdan, Rajkot district, Gujarat, India
surface form: Jasdan
Hindi
Kamloops (on its southeastern margin)
surface form: Kamloops
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bandorf German
President of the Landtag German via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage"
Unterland German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Schwabach district-free city German
Sant’Antimo Italian
Magreglio Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sant Feliu de Guíxols Catalan NERFINISHED
Sant Feliu de Guíxols Spanish
Comune di Aosta Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Comune di Aosta French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Missouri House of Representatives English
Ellan Vannin
surface form: Isle of Man
English