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
Ružinov Slovak via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
2010 IIHF World Championship English
2010 IIHF World Championship German
Imperial Abbey of Burtscheid Latin via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Conseil d’État
surface form: Conseil d’État (Belgium)
French
Conseil d’État
surface form: Conseil d’État (Belgium)
Dutch
Shoreline City Council English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Flaxweiler Luxembourgish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Flaxweiler French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Flaxweiler German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
DRA
surface form: Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
Pashto
DRA
surface form: Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
Dari NERFINISHED
Central Bank of Eswatini English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Central Bank of Eswatini siSwati via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Outlook English
San Javier, Region of Murcia, Spain Spanish
Xunhua Salar Autonomous County Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Jishishan Bonan, Dongxiang and Salar Autonomous County Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Borger-Odoorn Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Canton of Basel-Stadt German
Tambov Russian
Manikganj District Bengali NERFINISHED
Montería Spanish
Schuttertal German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hohberg German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Neu-Isenburg German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Republic of Ireland Irish
Republic of Ireland English
2012 IIHF World Championship English
2012 IIHF World Championship French
Hythe
surface form: Hythe, Alberta
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Istiaia-Aidipsos municipality Greek
New Mills Town Council English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Samedan German
Scuol Romansh NERFINISHED
Scuol German
Zuoz German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Celerina German via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Celerina Romansh via predicate surface "languageOfficial" NERFINISHED
S-chanf Romansh NERFINISHED
S-chanf German
Sent Romansh via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Sent German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ardez Romansh NERFINISHED
Ardez German
Tarasp German NERFINISHED
Tarasp Romansh NERFINISHED
Susch German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Susch Romansh via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Lavin Romansh via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED