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
Kappel-Grafenhausen German NERFINISHED
APDPDEI Greek via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Nea Elis Greek via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Saint-Saëns, Seine-Maritime, France French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Wolfratshausen German NERFINISHED
Diocese of Eichstätt German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Lezhë Albanian NERFINISHED
Suifenhe Standard Chinese
Lucknow Cantonment Hindi
Kézdivásárhely (Târgu Secuiesc)
surface form: Kézdivásárhely
Romanian via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Cottingham municipal cemetery, near Hull English via predicate surface "hasLanguageOfLocalAdministration"
Yaté French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
South Province of New Caledonia French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kanpur Nagar district Hindi
Buchtel English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Suva municipal authorities English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Suva municipal authorities Fijian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Suva municipal authorities Fiji Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Mexican Texas Spanish
Berkeley Fire Department English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
United Nations Political Office for Somalia English
United Nations Political Office for Somalia Somali
United Nations Political Office for Somalia Arabic
Essex, Ontario English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Town of Essex English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Town of Amherstburg English
Town of Lakeshore English
Town of LaSalle English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Town of LaSalle French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Municipality of Leamington English via predicate surface "languageOfficial" NERFINISHED
Essex County Council English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Taʻū (village) English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Taʻū (village) Samoan via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Urdu via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hyderabad Municipal Corporation Sindhi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Krain German
Vojvodina Kranjska German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Vojvodina Kranjska Slovene via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Décines-Charpieu French
Northmuir English
Ottenau German NERFINISHED
Raasiku Parish Estonian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Seekirchen am Wallersee German
Paillaco Commune Spanish
Bardoli Gujarati via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Bardoli Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Camembert, Orne French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Flers French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguageStatus"
Domfront en Poiraie French
Lebern District German