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
Montfoort Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ibaraki City Japanese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Étrépilly French
Deurne Dutch
Greenfield Park French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Greenfield Park English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Braine-l'Alleud French
Fort Severn First Nation English
Guelmim Arabic
Guelmim Amazigh NERFINISHED
Balakliia Ukrainian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Épinay-sur-Orge French
Loreto Department Spanish
Sorel-Tracy French
Kiryat Moshe
surface form: Kiryat Moshe (Rehovot)
Hebrew via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Saint-Jérôme, Quebec French
Lelystad Dutch via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Vila Nova de Famalicão Portuguese
Weiler-la-Tour Luxembourgish
Weiler-la-Tour French
Weiler-la-Tour German
Bhind district Hindi
Cree Nation of Eeyou Istchee Cree NERFINISHED
Cree Nation of Eeyou Istchee English
Cree Nation of Eeyou Istchee French
Melsungen German
Mont-Laurier, Quebec French
Tamuning, Guam English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tamuning, Guam Chamorro via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Lausanne District French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Fengnan District Standard Chinese
Ness Ziona Hebrew via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Fengrun District Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tingvoll Norwegian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Umbertide Italian
Jay County, Indiana English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Świdwin Polish
Magione Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Stark, New York English
Hamirpur district Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kuznetsk Russian
Hopewell, New York English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sidi Ifni Arabic
Sidi Ifni Amazigh NERFINISHED
Santa Monica
surface form: Santa Monica, Surigao del Norte
Filipino
Santa Monica
surface form: Santa Monica, Surigao del Norte
English
Oberweier German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mexico State Spanish
Errachidia Arabic
Betzdorf Luxembourgish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"