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
Municipality of Turin Italian
San Giorgio su Legnano Italian
Nystad Finnish via predicate surface "languageOfficial" NERFINISHED
Cruz Quebrada-Dafundo Portuguese
Linda-a-Velha Portuguese
Department of Antioquia Spanish
Rómulo Gallegos Municipality, Apure Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Körfez Turkish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Orkdal Norwegian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Sieradz County Polish
Bantayan town
surface form: Bantayan
Filipino NERFINISHED
Bantayan town
surface form: Bantayan
English
Victoria
surface form: Victoria, Chile
Spanish
Ørland Norwegian NERFINISHED
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
surface form: Montreal
French
city of Shkodër
surface form: Shkodër
Albanian
Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist Republic Russian
Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist Republic Kyrgyz NERFINISHED
Isola di Montecristo Italian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
United States Navy governor of Guam English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Mont-Dore French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hidalgo (state)
surface form: Hidalgo
Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kresna Bulgarian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Haparanda Swedish
Gitlaxt’aamiks English
Province of Central Java Indonesian
SCR
surface form: Sheffield City Region
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo administration within SFR Yugoslavia Serbo-Croatian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo administration within SFR Yugoslavia Albanian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Houdeng-Aimeries French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Saint-Vaast French
Maurage French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Krishnagiri district Tamil
Francoist Cortes Spanish
Apeldoorn, Netherlands
surface form: Apeldoorn
Dutch
Datia district Hindi
Alvdal Norwegian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Ma'ale Adumim Hebrew via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ma'ale Adumim Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Rómulo Gallegos Municipality, Cojedes Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Commonwealth of Ireland English
Bondevik's Second Cabinet Norwegian via predicate surface "languageOfGovernment"
Ujjain district Hindi
Dayanand Colony Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Dayanand Colony English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Le Gosier French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sainte-Anne French
Saint-François French
Le Moule French
Anse-Bertrand French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"