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
Pulwama Hindi
Pulwama English
Kupwara Urdu NERFINISHED
Shopian Urdu NERFINISHED
Shopian Kashmiri
Shopian Hindi
Shopian English
Ganderbal Kashmiri
Ganderbal Urdu NERFINISHED
Ganderbal Hindi
Ganderbal English
MEA
surface form: Ministry of External Affairs (India)
Hindi
MEA
surface form: Ministry of External Affairs (India)
English
Malik Ahmad Nizam Shah I Persian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Trimulgherry Telugu via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Trimulgherry Urdu via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Trimulgherry English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Pasajes Basque NERFINISHED
Pasajes Spanish
Domagnano Italian
Acquaviva Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Faetano Italian NERFINISHED
Dogana Italian in San Marino via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfCountry"
Falciano Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Rovereta Italian
Valgiurata Italian
Lesignano Chiesanuova (locality)
surface form: Lesignano Chiesanuova
Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ravenwood, Missouri English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
North West Delhi district Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Phagwara Punjabi NERFINISHED
Carrù Italian
Fusch an der Großglocknerstraße German
Pierre-Bénite French
Sechelt English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Le Plateau-Mont-Royal French
Republic of Baden German
Åsnes Bokmål via predicate surface "languageOfficial" NERFINISHED
Nendaz French
Považská Bystrica Slovak
Albino Italian
District Administration Ambala Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Barara tehsil Hindi
Naraingarh tehsil Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ranavav Gujarati NERFINISHED
Ranavav Hindi
Imi n’Tanout Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Inezgane-Aït Melloul Prefecture Arabic
Andria Italian
arrondissement of Largentière French via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Second Commonwealth (1659–1660) English via predicate surface "languageOfGovernment"