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
City of Leon Valley English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bắc Ninh Province Vietnamese
Collesalvetti Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Montijo Portuguese NERFINISHED
ඌව පළාත Sinhala NERFINISHED
ඌව පළාත Tamil NERFINISHED
Eastern Province Sinhala NERFINISHED
Eastern Province Tamil NERFINISHED
Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture Standard Chinese
Dhamtari district Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Dhamtari district Chhattisgarhi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Rupnagar district Punjabi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Tessera Italian
Rhemes-Notre-Dame Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Rhemes-Notre-Dame French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Noasca Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Lesser Poland and Świętokrzyskie constituency Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Brønderslev Danish
Las Matas Spanish
Torrelodones Spanish
Garowe Somali NERFINISHED
Garowe Arabic
Pulung Maragul Filipino via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Pulung Maragul English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Blonay – Saint-Légier French
Roman Catholic Diocese of Hradec Králové Czech
Sućuraj Croatian NERFINISHED
Government of the Pitcairn Islands English
Government of the Pitcairn Islands Pitkern NERFINISHED
Udhampur Municipal Council Hindi via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Udhampur Municipal Council Urdu via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration" NERFINISHED
Udhampur Municipal Council English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Goubellat Arabic via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfCountry"
Amdoun Arabic
Thibar Arabic via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfCountry" NERFINISHED
Jendouba Governorate Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo English
Kerkebet Tigrinya NERFINISHED
Kerkebet Arabic
Kerkebet English
Kapashera Hindi
Rajokri Hindi
Qutub Vihar Hindi
Najafgarh subdivision Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Najafgarh subdivision English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Matiala Assembly constituency Hindi via predicate surface "hasLanguageOfAdministration" NERFINISHED
Matiala Assembly constituency English via predicate surface "hasLanguageOfAdministration"
Sakhra Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Halawah Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Rasoun Arabic