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
Nairn and Hyman English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Nairn and Hyman French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sables-Spanish Rivers English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
North Ayrshire council area English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Comorian language Union of the Comoros via predicate surface "isOfficialLanguageOf" NERFINISHED
Vogošća Bosnian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Vogošća Croatian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Vogošća Serbian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Trnovo Bosnian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Trnovo Serbian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Trnovo Croatian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Zenica-Doboj Canton Bosnian
Zenica-Doboj Canton Croatian NERFINISHED
Zenica-Doboj Canton Serbian NERFINISHED
Appenweier German
Friesenheim German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Zumikon German NERFINISHED
IEEE corporate headquarters (primary office) English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Virovitica-Podravina County Croatian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Karanganyar Regency Indonesian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Berehove Ukrainian
Kairouan Governorate Arabic
Boom Creek English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Balatonalmádi District Hungarian via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Sümeg District Hungarian
Buxtehude German
Balh Hindi
Balh English
Shahpur subdivision Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Nagrota Surian Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Nagrota Surian English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Jawali Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Jawali Pahari (local dialects) via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
International Psychoanalytical Association English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
International Psychoanalytical Association French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
International Psychoanalytical Association Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Municipality of Paillaco Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Heeze-Leende Dutch
ceremonial county of Cornwall (excluding Isles of Scilly unitary area) English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Dieuze French
City of Dubai Arabic
municipality of Erzhausen
surface form: Erzhausen
German
Mörfelden-Walldorf German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Moschiano Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Pago del Vallo di Lauro Italian
Quindici Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Carbonara di Nola Italian NERFINISHED
Marzano di Nola Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Algonquin Highlands English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Martigues, France
surface form: Martigues
French