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
Malayattoor Malayalam
Cultural Heritage Administration of Korea Korean
Incheon International Airport Corporation Korean via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Carleton Place, Ontario, Canada
surface form: Carleton Place
English
MLC
surface form: Maharashtra Legislative Council
Marathi NERFINISHED
Hettstadt German
Kariwa Japanese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Township of Moonachie English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Palampur Hindi
Nagrota Bagwan Hindi
Nagrota Bagwan Hindi (state official language of Himachal Pradesh)
Jalandhar division Punjabi NERFINISHED
Sultanpur Lodhi Punjabi
Bholath Punjabi
Eastern Province, Zambia English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
National District constituencies Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialUse"
Santo Domingo de Guzmán Spanish
Constanza Spanish via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfCountry"
Maasin, Southern Leyte, Philippines Filipino
Maasin, Southern Leyte, Philippines English
Horki District Belarusian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Horki District Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Byalynichy Belarusian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguageOfCountry"
Byalynichy Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguageOfCountry"
Nezvěstice Czech
Starý Plzenec Czech
FCVP Czech via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Doğanhisar Turkish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Georgievsk Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Usolye-Sibirskoye Russian
Monaragala District Sinhala via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Monaragala District Tamil via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Seengen German
Rewari district Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Archdeaconry of Furness English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Central Province Sinhala
Central Province Tamil
Ruwanwella Sinhala via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Ruwanwella Tamil via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage"
Raduzhny (Vladimir Oblast) Russian
Lakinsk Russian via predicate surface "officialLanguageCountry"
Mortsel, Belgium
surface form: Mortsel
Dutch NERFINISHED
Gmunden German NERFINISHED
Rockland
surface form: Rockland, Ontario
English
Rockland
surface form: Rockland, Ontario
French
Babushkinsky District Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Upper Bicutan Filipino via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Upper Bicutan English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hall Beach Inuktitut via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Hall Beach English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"