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
Kahramanmaraş Province Turkish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Camera dei deputati Italian
Binzhou Standard Chinese
Kirov Oblast Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Województwo wołyńskie łacina via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Województwo wołyńskie język polski via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Nerežišća Croatian
Providencia district Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ceresole Alba Italian
Mons-en-Barœul French
Government of Uttarakhand Hindi via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration" NERFINISHED
National Highways Authority of India Hindi
National Highways Authority of India English
Kamareddy Telugu NERFINISHED
Hosur Tamil
Namakkal Tamil NERFINISHED
Andrews Ganj Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Andrews Ganj English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
East of Kailash Hindi
East of Kailash English
Ekenäs Swedish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Ekenäs Finnish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Viimsi Estonian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Nurpur Hindi
Partido de Patagones Spanish
West Region (Cameroon) French
West Region (Cameroon) English
United States of America (pre-Gilead, fictional setting)
surface form: United States of America (pre-Gilead)
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Whitecourt English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Athabasca, Alberta English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ahmedabad district Gujarati
Huvudsta Strand Swedish via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Garhshankar Punjabi NERFINISHED
Loboc Filipino
Loboc English
Ubay Filipino via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Ubay English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
canton of Domont French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Wendlingen am Neckar German
Novi Bečej Serbian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
municipality of Bogatić
surface form: Municipality of Bogatić
Serbian via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
municipality of Ljubovija Serbian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
municipality of Azbukovica Serbian via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Aleksin Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Uzlovaya Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Suvorov Russian
Odivelas, Portugal Portuguese
Llanfyllin Town Hall English via predicate surface "languageOfLocalAdministration"
Llanfyllin Town Hall Welsh via predicate surface "languageOfLocalAdministration"
Municipality of Patmos Greek via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"