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
Unterseen German
Matten bei Interlaken German
Hudson's Hope English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Nawab Shah Jahan Begum Persian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Budgam Kashmiri NERFINISHED
Budgam Urdu NERFINISHED
Budgam Hindi
Budgam Dogri
Budgam English
Caluire-et-Cuire French
Tassin-la-Demi-Lune French
Wetzikon German
Urban agglomeration of Montreal French via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Armon HaNetziv Hebrew via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Witzenhausen German
Wilderswil German
Moos (am Bodensee) German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Orsingen-Nenzingen German
Mühlingen German
Bodman-Ludwigshafen German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sipplingen German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Emmingen-Liptingen German
Jacksonville City Hall English via predicate surface "primaryLanguageOfAdministration"
Kefalonia regional unit Greek via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Clorinda Spanish
Municipality of Lezhë Albanian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
State of Vietnam Vietnamese
Gajapati district Odia NERFINISHED
municipality of Land van Cuijk
surface form: Land van Cuijk
Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania English via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialActs"
Mioveni Romanian NERFINISHED
Pitești City Hall Romanian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bavarian state authorities German via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Mook Dutch
municipality of Mook en Middelaar
surface form: Mook en Middelaar
Dutch
Mill en Sint Hubert Dutch
Meråker Norwegian via predicate surface "languageOfficial" NERFINISHED
Bissingen German
Budaörs, Hungary
surface form: Budaörs
Hungarian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Taroudant Province Arabic
Cerignola Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Saint-Fons French
Lago Ranco Commune Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
ASME Timoshenko Medal English via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialMaterials"
Brooklyn Museum Asher B. Durand Award for Artistic Excellence English
Shenzhen City Hall (early period, historical) Chinese via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialUse"
Shenzhen City Hall (early period, historical) Mandarin Chinese via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialUse"
Head of the Catholic Church Latin
Minya Governorate Arabic
Directorate-General of the Civil Guard headquarters Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"