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
Austria and Hungary
surface form: Hungary
Hungarian NERFINISHED
Austria and Hungary
surface form: Austria-Hungary
German
Austria and Hungary
surface form: Austria-Hungary
Hungarian
Sousse Governorate Arabic
Sandimen Township Mandarin Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Turbaco Spanish
Mompox Spanish
San Juan Nepomuceno Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Simití Spanish
Cantagallo Spanish
Morales
surface form: Morales, Bolívar
Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hatillo de Loba Spanish
San Martín de Loba Spanish
San Estanislao Spanish
Santa Catalina
surface form: Santa Catalina, Bolívar
Spanish
Clemencia Spanish
María La Baja Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Orleans Parish Civil District Court English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Brühl, Germany German
Montale, Italy Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Macharaviaya Spanish
Maxixe Portuguese
Homoine Portuguese via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfCountry"
Funhalouro Portuguese (official language of Mozambique) via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfCountry"
Morrumbene Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Funhalouro District Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Panda District Portuguese
Zavala District Portuguese
Manica Province Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Government of Rhodesia English
Elgin County, Ontario English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Suchitepéquez Department Spanish
Gasselternijveen Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Maidan Shahr District Pashto via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Maidan Shahr District Dari via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Day Mirdad District Pashto via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Day Mirdad District Dari via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Borden-Carleton, Prince Edward Island English
Jubilee of 1300 Latin via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialActs" NERFINISHED
Odisha Legislative Assembly constituencies Odia via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration" NERFINISHED
Odisha Legislative Assembly constituencies English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Chūō City Office Japanese via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialBusiness"
Organisation internationale de la Francophonie French
Oruzgan Province Pashto NERFINISHED
Kaytagsky District Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Baubau Indonesian
Anbar Governorate Arabic
Ulan-Ude Russian
Breckerfeld German
Thaba Chweu Local Municipality English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"