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
Sant’Ilario in Campo Italian
Vietnamese National Anthem Vietnamese NERFINISHED
Serifos Greek
Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon district English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Łask County Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Radomsko County Polish
Rawa County Polish
Yongsan-gu Korean
Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality Turkish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Jiande Standard Chinese
Soave Italian
San Giovanni Lupatoto Italian
Llanquihue Commune Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Dumbéa French
Païta French
Boulouparis French
La Foa French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sarraméa French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Farino French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Moindou French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bourail French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Thio French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Municipality of Benito Juárez, Quintana Roo Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Krasnogorsky District Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Saue Parish Estonian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Greater Kailash Hindi
Province of Papua Indonesian
Holzweißig German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
National Research and Innovation Agency of Indonesia (BRIN)
surface form: National Research and Innovation Agency of Indonesia
Indonesian
Ombilin Coal Mining Heritage of Sawahlunto Indonesian via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfCountry"
Ward 2 of Eugene English (de facto) via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
South Province French
Nouméa town hall French via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
African, Caribbean and Pacific
surface form: African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
African, Caribbean and Pacific
surface form: African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States
French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
African, Caribbean and Pacific
surface form: African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States
Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Youxi County, Fujian Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia Indonesian
Câmara Municipal de Oeiras Portuguese
Bondevik's First Cabinet Norwegian via predicate surface "languageOfGovernment"
Solberg Cabinet Norwegian via predicate surface "languageOfGovernment"
Collipulli Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Traiguén Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Purén Spanish
Lumaco Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ercilla Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Michigan's 3rd congressional district English via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialBusiness"
Imperial Abbey of Thorn Latin via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Imperial Abbey of Thorn German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Imperial Abbey of Thorn Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"