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
Dholka Nagarpalika Gujarati via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Umreth Gujarati via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Borsad Gujarati NERFINISHED
Borsad Hindi
Petlad Gujarati NERFINISHED
Petlad Hindi
Purwakarta, Indonesia
surface form: Purwakarta Regency
Indonesian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Yingzhou District Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Cois Fharraige Irish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Colchester County English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Okotoks English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Leduc English
Dominion of Newfoundland English
Surquillo District Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sanawad Hindi
Zachary, Louisiana, United States
surface form: Zachary, Louisiana
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Norway House, Manitoba English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Los Ríos
surface form: Los Ríos Region
Spanish
Mariquina Commune Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ouezzane Arabic
Ouezzane Amazigh NERFINISHED
Darwin, Río Negro Spanish
Pasching German NERFINISHED
municipality of Lopik
surface form: Lopik
Dutch
Ecublens French
Sikkim Legislative Assembly English via predicate surface "officialLanguageUsed"
Municipality of Arequipa Spanish
Wiefelstede German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Rota d'Imagna Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Moche (town) Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Government of Trujillo, Peru Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Obrazów Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gmina Koprzywnica Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gmina Zawichost Polish
Gmina Klimontów Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gmina Obrazów Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gmina Samborzec Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gmina Wilczyce Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gmina Wojciechowice Polish
Insular Government of the Philippine Islands English
Insular Government of the Philippine Islands Spanish
Sokol Russian
Espace Mittelland German via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Espace Mittelland French via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Gradisca d’Isonzo Italian
Königsberg in Franken German
Nada-ku Japanese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Simalungun Regency Indonesian
Cobalt English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Cobalt French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"