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
Lunan District Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Qianxi County Standard Chinese
Ards and North Down Borough Council English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Fuzhou dialect none via predicate surface "isOfficialLanguageOf"
Ruapehu District English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ruapehu District Māori via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Arnex-sur-Nyon French
Laizhou Chinese
Mudukulathur Tamil NERFINISHED
Sechelt Indian Band she shashishalhem
Sechelt Indian Band English
Rixheim French
Tharangambadi Tamil NERFINISHED
Kodiak settlement Russian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Russian-American Company Russian
Greater Hesse German
Kingborough Council English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Comune di Viterbo Italian
North West District Municipality English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
North West District Municipality Setswana via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Directorate-General for Translation (DG TRAD)
surface form: Directorate-General for Translation
Bulgarian via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Directorate-General for Translation (DG TRAD)
surface form: Directorate-General for Translation
Croatian via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Directorate-General for Translation (DG TRAD)
surface form: Directorate-General for Translation
Czech via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Directorate-General for Translation (DG TRAD)
surface form: Directorate-General for Translation
Danish via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Directorate-General for Translation (DG TRAD)
surface form: Directorate-General for Translation
Dutch via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Directorate-General for Translation (DG TRAD)
surface form: Directorate-General for Translation
English via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Directorate-General for Translation (DG TRAD)
surface form: Directorate-General for Translation
Estonian via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Directorate-General for Translation (DG TRAD)
surface form: Directorate-General for Translation
Finnish via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Directorate-General for Translation (DG TRAD)
surface form: Directorate-General for Translation
French via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Directorate-General for Translation (DG TRAD)
surface form: Directorate-General for Translation
German via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Directorate-General for Translation (DG TRAD)
surface form: Directorate-General for Translation
Greek via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Directorate-General for Translation (DG TRAD)
surface form: Directorate-General for Translation
Hungarian via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Directorate-General for Translation (DG TRAD)
surface form: Directorate-General for Translation
Irish via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Directorate-General for Translation (DG TRAD)
surface form: Directorate-General for Translation
Italian via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Directorate-General for Translation (DG TRAD)
surface form: Directorate-General for Translation
Latvian via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Directorate-General for Translation (DG TRAD)
surface form: Directorate-General for Translation
Lithuanian via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Directorate-General for Translation (DG TRAD)
surface form: Directorate-General for Translation
Maltese via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Directorate-General for Translation (DG TRAD)
surface form: Directorate-General for Translation
Polish via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Directorate-General for Translation (DG TRAD)
surface form: Directorate-General for Translation
Portuguese via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Directorate-General for Translation (DG TRAD)
surface form: Directorate-General for Translation
Romanian via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Directorate-General for Translation (DG TRAD)
surface form: Directorate-General for Translation
Slovak via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Directorate-General for Translation (DG TRAD)
surface form: Directorate-General for Translation
Slovene via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Directorate-General for Translation (DG TRAD)
surface form: Directorate-General for Translation
Spanish via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Directorate-General for Translation (DG TRAD)
surface form: Directorate-General for Translation
Swedish via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Guye District Standard Chinese
Qian'an City Standard Chinese
Yutian County Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Bezons French
Kazanh Turkish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Northern Region of Nigeria English