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
San Nicolás del Puerto Spanish
Vinderen Norwegian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Satkhira District Bengali via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Gladsaxe Municipality Danish
Parishes of Bermuda English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Ntem French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ntem English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
2030 FIFA World Cup English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
2030 FIFA World Cup French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
2030 FIFA World Cup Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
2030 FIFA World Cup Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Chhatarpur division Hindi
Chhatarpur division Hindi via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Rochefort
surface form: Rochefort (Neuchâtel)
French
Homoine District Portuguese
Morrumbene District Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
King of Sweden and Norway Swedish
King of Sweden and Norway Norwegian
Dinnyés Hungarian
Benkovac Croatian
Obrovac Croatian
Poličnik Croatian
Kali Croatian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Preko Croatian NERFINISHED
Kolane Croatian
Vir Croatian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tembuku District Indonesian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Carmen de la Legua-Reynoso Spanish
Dourados Portuguese
Gunungkidul Regency Indonesian
Shefa Province Bislama NERFINISHED
Shefa Province English
Shefa Province French
Udmurt ASSR Russian
Udmurt ASSR Udmurt NERFINISHED
Egyptian Super Cup Arabic
Banggai Islands Regency Indonesian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Câmara Municipal de Nossa Senhora do Socorro Portuguese via predicate surface "officialLanguageUsed"
Legislative Assembly of Bahia Portuguese
Palácio do Governo de Sergipe Portuguese via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialUse"
Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil
surface form: Diamantina
Portuguese
Resende, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Portuguese
Western Zhou period Old Chinese NERFINISHED
Kurba Vela Croatian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguageOfCountry" NERFINISHED
Province of Zara Italian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Zemunik Donji Croatian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Comune di Pescina Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Slovenes Slovenia via predicate surface "officialLanguageIn" NERFINISHED
municipal council of Alaior Catalan (Balearic variety) via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Al Minya Governorate Arabic