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
Qausuittuq English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Qausuittuq French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ceresole Reale Italian
Somerset West and Taunton English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Villena Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Villena Valencian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Southern Province Sinhala NERFINISHED
Southern Province Tamil NERFINISHED
Southern Province English
Gavoi Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Fourth Judicial Circuit of West Virginia English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gibraltar Financial Services Commission English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Uplands ward English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Uplands ward Welsh via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Zizur Mayor, Spain
surface form: Zizur Mayor
Spanish
Zizur Mayor, Spain
surface form: Zizur Mayor
Basque NERFINISHED
Taishan Standard Chinese
Vals-près-le-Puy, France
surface form: Vals-près-le-Puy
French
Ministry of Finance of Ukraine Ukrainian
Ministry of Health of Ukraine Ukrainian
Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine Ukrainian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Lubero French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Beni Territory French
Ħamrun Maltese
Ħamrun English
Palayan City Filipino via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Palayan City English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Beecher Bay 37 English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Anyako, Ghana English
Graton Rancheria English
Balaghat district Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Manriki English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Manriki Gilbertese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Brixen German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Brixen Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Leukerbad German
Balqa Governorate Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Maranhão Portuguese
Shunga period Prakrit via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration" NERFINISHED
Commune of Lanco Spanish
Los Ríos administrative region
surface form: Los Ríos Region
Spanish
Corral Commune Spanish
Weil im Schönbuch German
Taihoku Prefecture Japanese via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Clinton County, Illinois English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Balashov Russian
Amministrazione del Patrimonio della Sede Apostolica Italian
Amministrazione del Patrimonio della Sede Apostolica Latin
Bishopric of Liège Latin NERFINISHED
Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch of Antioch Arabic via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"