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
Prefect of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands French
Tanganyika Province French
Tanganyika Province Swahili via predicate surface "nationalLanguage" NERFINISHED
Baraka French via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfCountry"
Kabare Territory French
Kabare Territory Swahili via predicate surface "nationalLanguage"
Daugavpils Fortress Latvian via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfLocation"
Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation Gujarati via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Anthem of the Chechen Republic Chechen language NERFINISHED
Anthem of the Chechen Republic Russian language NERFINISHED
Ayuntamiento de Villanueva de la Serena Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Marsciano Italian
Tuoro sul Trasimeno Italian
New Hampshire Grants (later Vermont)
surface form: New Hampshire Grants
English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Jalalaqsi Somali via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Semín Czech
Power Department, Delhi Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Power Department, Delhi English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Rajgurunagar (renamed from Khed in his honour)
surface form: Rajgurunagar
Marathi NERFINISHED
Bottle Creek English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Haidian Subdistrict Standard Chinese
Duke of Saxe-Eisenach German via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Manawatū District English
Manawatū District Māori NERFINISHED
Sanuki Japanese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hinwil German
9th arrondissement of Lyon French
Dornbirn German
West Sumbawa Regency Indonesian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bima Regency Indonesian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Järveotsa Estonian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Burnt Cove English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Manhattan Community District 9 English
Mughal Subah of Orissa Persian via predicate surface "hadAdministrativeLanguage"
Bay Roberts English
Greek Basket League Greek
Frontera, Tabasco Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
South Tyrol German
South Tyrol Italian
South Tyrol Ladin NERFINISHED
Korçë Albanian NERFINISHED
Tasovice Czech
Republic of Egypt Arabic
Republic of Egypt Egyptian Arabic via predicate surface "nationalLanguage" NERFINISHED
St. Mary Municipal Corporation English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Surgut Russian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Cheremkhovo Russian
Burhanpur Municipal Corporation Hindi via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration" NERFINISHED
Nawanshahr district Punjabi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED