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
EuroBasket 2001 Turkish
Pressburg County Latin via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Pressburg County Hungarian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Nome municipality Norwegian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Etajima City Government Japanese
Inverness, Highland, Scotland English
Coquitlam Indian Reserve No. 1 English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
southeastern Uttar Pradesh
surface form: Southeastern Uttar Pradesh
Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
North West Leicestershire English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tinghir Province Arabic
Montemor-o-Novo Portuguese
Rabi Island English
Benicarló Spanish
Benicarló Valencian
Haskovo Province Bulgarian
Central Bangka Regency Indonesian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Affi Italian
Dolcè Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Caprino Veronese Italian
Negrar di Valpolicella Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Grand Ducal Police French
Grand Ducal Police German
Grand Ducal Police Luxembourgish
San Marco sestiere Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Racławice Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mauricie region of Quebec
surface form: Mauricie
French
Gol Mountains Swahili via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Gol Mountains English via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Pääsküla Estonian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Cernay French
Wieruszów County Polish
Rich County English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic Turkmen NERFINISHED
Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic Russian NERFINISHED
Third Judicial District of Pennsylvania English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Murzuq District Arabic
Bad Dürkheim, Germany
surface form: Bad Dürkheim
German
Rights & Democracy English
Rights & Democracy French
Gagil-Tamil English via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Gagil-Tamil Yapese via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage"
Gagil-Tamil Ulithian via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage"
Gagil-Tamil Woleaian via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Gagil-Tamil Chuukese via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage"
Gagil-Tamil Kosraean via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage"
Gagil-Tamil Pohnpeian via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage"
Gagil-Tamil Mortlockese via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Gagil-Tamil Kapingamarangi via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Gagil-Tamil Nukuoro via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Appels Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"