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
Gmina Morawica Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gmina Nowa Słupia Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gmina Piekoszów Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gmina Raków Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gmina Sitkówka-Nowiny Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gmina Strawczyn Polish
Roosendaal Dutch
Chin State, Myanmar
surface form: Chin State
Burmese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Municipality of Bologna Italian
Cittaslow Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Cittaslow English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Loire-Authion French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Karauli district Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Stordal Norwegian via predicate surface "languageOfficial" NERFINISHED
Superior Court of Justice of Brazil Portuguese
Malindi Swahili NERFINISHED
Malindi English
Kilifi County English
Kilifi County Swahili NERFINISHED
Sawyer County, Wisconsin English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Stenbock House Estonian via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfCountry"
RK
surface form: Riigikogu
Estonian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bad Essen German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Belm German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bohmte German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hagen am Teutoburger Wald German
Glandorf German NERFINISHED
Hilter am Teutoburger Wald German
Neuenkirchen-Vörden German
Ostercappeln German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bippen German
Eggermühlen German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kettenkamp German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Saaremaa Parish Estonian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Leisi municipality Estonian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Orissaare municipality Estonian
Pöide municipality Estonian
San Diego City Council District 1 English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ahmedabad Gadi Gujarati via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration" NERFINISHED
Ahmedabad Gadi Hindi via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration" NERFINISHED
Ahmedabad Gadi English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration" NERFINISHED
Cartaxo Portuguese
Rio Maior Portuguese
Winznau German
Palanpur Agency English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Palanpur Agency Gujarati via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration" NERFINISHED
UNESCO World Heritage Site "Port, Fortresses and Group of Monuments, Cartagena"
surface form: Port, Fortresses and Group of Monuments, Cartagena
Spanish
Thermi Greek via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Botad district Gujarati NERFINISHED
Statistics Bureau of Japan Japanese