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
NVD
surface form: National Voters' Day
Hindi via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialMaterials" NERFINISHED
NVD
surface form: National Voters' Day
English via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialMaterials"
NVD
surface form: National Voters' Day
various Indian regional languages via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialMaterials"
West Pakistan Urdu NERFINISHED
Yingdong District Chinese
Itum-Kalinsky District Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Itum-Kalinsky District Chechen via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
World Mixed Curling Championship English
arrondissement of Compiègne French via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
municipality of Dirksland
surface form: Dirksland
Dutch
Newcastle Island Indian Reserve English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Newcastle Island Indian Reserve French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gabriola Island reserves English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Pozsony County Latin via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Pozsony County Hungarian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Pozsony County German via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Uttarkashi Hindi
Uttarkashi Garhwali NERFINISHED
ICC Awards English
Central Province, Papua New Guinea English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Begovoy District Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Albula region German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Albula region Romansh via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Cipatat Indonesian NERFINISHED
Parongpong Indonesian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Casale Monferrato Italian
SCA
surface form: Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa
English
Loures Portuguese
Sobral de Monte Agraço Portuguese NERFINISHED
Manmad Marathi NERFINISHED
Nandgaon Marathi via predicate surface "languageOfficial" NERFINISHED
Yeola Municipal Council Marathi via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Larnaca District Greek
Larnaca District Turkish
Ersekë Albanian NERFINISHED
Kaynardzha Bulgarian NERFINISHED
Lucknow division Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
New London, Prince Edward Island, Canada
surface form: New London, Prince Edward Island
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Diessenhofen (Switzerland)
surface form: Diessenhofen
German via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Southwestern Quebec French
Ii Finnish
Liminka Finnish
Township of Adjala-Tosorontio English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kolhapur Municipal Corporation Marathi via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration" NERFINISHED
PSPC
surface form: Public Services and Procurement Canada
English
PSPC
surface form: Public Services and Procurement Canada
French
Gmina Łapsze Niżne Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gmina Czorsztyn Polish
Val Müstair Romansh NERFINISHED
Val Müstair German