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
Badia Ladin NERFINISHED
Badia German
Badia Italian
La Val Ladin via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
La Val Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
La Val German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
San Martino in Badia Ladin NERFINISHED
San Martino in Badia German
San Martino in Badia Italian
Prebendary of Salisbury Cathedral English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Flavius Iustinus Latin via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Martina Franca Italian
Gwancheol-dong Korean via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Chongno-gu
surface form: Jongno-gu
Korean via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Las Tunas Province Spanish
Norwegian Customs Norwegian NERFINISHED
Nador Province Arabic
Nador Province Amazigh NERFINISHED
municipality of Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht
surface form: Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht
Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Malgobek Russian
Lumarzo Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Rommen Norwegian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Saharanpur division Hindi via predicate surface "languageOfficial" NERFINISHED
Bogleråsen Norwegian Bokmål via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Bogleråsen Norwegian Nynorsk via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Kestenholz German
Wolfwil German
Langenbruck German
Três Lagoas Portuguese NERFINISHED
Shivpuri district Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Unnao district Hindi
commune of Levallois-Perret
surface form: Levallois-Perret
French
Voskresensky District, Moscow Oblast Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Coinsins French
Bassins French
21st Judicial Circuit of Illinois English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bataysk Russian
Shahdol district Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Neupre, Belgium
surface form: Neupré
French
Lage (Lippe) German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Fort-de-France, Martinique
surface form: Fort-de-France
French
Jaghatu District Pashto via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Jaghatu District Dari via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Cromvoirt Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Act of Parliament of the Netherlands Dutch
Arcos de la Frontera Spanish
Bornos Spanish
Villamartín Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Chaozhou Township Mandarin Chinese
Jiadong Township Mandarin Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED