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
TMG Japanese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Abrantes Municipality Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Elbrussky District Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Elbrussky District Kabardian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Elbrussky District Karachay-Balkar via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière French
La Pocatière French via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Mies, Switzerland French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Maros
surface form: Maros Regency
Indonesian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Aínsa Spanish
Canfranc Spanish
Mirandese people Portuguese language via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfCommunity" NERFINISHED
municipality of Miranda do Douro
surface form: Municipality of Miranda do Douro
Portuguese
municipality of Vimioso
surface form: Vimioso
Portuguese NERFINISHED
municipality of Mogadouro Portuguese
Sendim Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Kanyakumari district Tamil
Honnavar Kannada NERFINISHED
Kumta Kannada NERFINISHED
Puttur Kannada NERFINISHED
Moodbidri Kannada via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Malappuram district Malayalam
Malappuram district English
British Java English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration" NERFINISHED
British Java Malay via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Bencoolen Residency English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Gmina Frombork Polish
Kulon Progo Regency Indonesian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Chapple English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Dawson English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
La Vallee English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Morley English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Pskov Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church Russian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Regency government of Karangasem Indonesian
Oshikoto Region English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Montgomery, Texas English
Miðvágur Faroese
Miðvágur Danish
Bayamón, Puerto Rico Spanish
Bayamón, Puerto Rico English
Badwani Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Badwani Marathi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Ansfelden German
Myrhorod Uyezd Russian via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Myrhorod Uyezd Ukrainian via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Herlev Danish
Minqing County Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Ghadamis Arabic
Cayma District Spanish
Ghogha Gujarati NERFINISHED