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
Taita Taveta English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Taita Taveta Swahili via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
General Staff Department of the Korean People's Army Korean
Huntsville
surface form: Huntsville, Ontario
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
East Ferris English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
East Ferris French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Chisholm English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Machar English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Powassan English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mattawa English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mattawa French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Papineau-Cameron English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Papineau-Cameron French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Census agglomeration of North Bay English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Census agglomeration of North Bay French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hapur district Hindi
Haut-Uélé Province French
Haut-Uélé Province Lingala via predicate surface "nationalLanguage" NERFINISHED
Plaza de la Encarnación Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Yeniseysk Governorate Russian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Mid Ulster District English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
St Davids City Council English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
St Davids City Council Welsh via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Maenclochog Welsh via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Maenclochog English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Banten Province government Indonesian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
canton of Nérac French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hôtel de Ville de Nérac (town hall)
surface form: Hôtel de Ville de Nérac
French via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Evinochori Greek via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Llanquihue Spanish
NEWPORT
surface form: Newport
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
NEWPORT
surface form: Newport
Welsh via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Saint Paul Charlestown Parish English
Villa de San Agustín de Laredo Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Laredo, Cantabria, Spain Spanish
Jaén, Peru Spanish
Tsawout Indian Reserve No. 2 English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
San Luis Río Colorado Municipality Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Deer Lake First Nation Oji-Cree via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Deer Lake First Nation English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Belfry of Armentières French via predicate surface "languageOfLocalAdministration"
Natore District Bengali
interwar Republic of Estonia Estonian
Sumedang Regency Indonesian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Dischingen German
municipal council of Porto Azzurro Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Opicina Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ajos harbour Finnish via predicate surface "languageOfLocalAdministration"
City of Kemi Finnish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kemi, Finland
surface form: Kemi
Finnish via predicate surface "languageOfficial"