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
Paredes Portuguese NERFINISHED
Pangkalpinang Indonesian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
West Bangka Regency Indonesian
Taichung Mandarin Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Horowhenua District English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Horowhenua District Māori via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hanceville, Alabama English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Jérica Spanish
Jérica Valencian NERFINISHED
Almansa Spanish
French occupation of Philippsburg French via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Rastatt district German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kiili Parish Estonian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Pajęczno County Polish via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Illnau-Effretikon German
Illambazar Bengali NERFINISHED
Ivaylovgrad Bulgarian
Groß-Gerau district German
Bangka Regency Indonesian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Belitung Regency Indonesian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Pachacámac District Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Balangoda Sinhala
Balangoda Tamil
Chuhuiv Ukrainian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Whangārei District English
Whangārei District Māori NERFINISHED
Tynset Norwegian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Meldal Norwegian via predicate surface "languageOfficial" NERFINISHED
Irwon-dong Korean via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Seongdong District Korean via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Anantapur Telugu NERFINISHED
Piotrków County Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bratislava III District Slovak via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Southern Region (Debub) of Eritrea Tigrinya
Schinkelbuurt Dutch
Prussian Province of Magdeburg German via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
National Order of Quebec French
Kiikala Finnish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Muurla Finnish via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Perniö Finnish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Maritime Region French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kose Parish Estonian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mustjõe Estonian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Petrich Bulgarian
southeastern Finland
surface form: Southeastern Finland
Finnish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Coquitlam Indian Reserve No. 2 English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
مجلس خبرگان رهبری زبان فارسی GENERATED
Alexandreia Municipality Greek
TAAF French
Saint-Pierre, Réunion French