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
Township of Brudenell, Lyndoch and Raglan English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Township of Head, Clara and Maria English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Township of Horton English
Township of Killaloe, Hagarty and Richards English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Township of North Algona Wilberforce English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Township of Whitewater Region English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Brekke Norwegian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Wolfisberg German
Schwarzhäusern German
Notre-Dame-de-Grâce French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Charles Frankel Prize English
Koforidua English
Dumagat (Agta) Filipino via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage"
Dumagat (Agta) English via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Shakhty Russian
Les Herbiers French
La Paz Spanish
Sukma district Hindi via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage" NERFINISHED
Kondagaon district Hindi
Kondagaon district Chhattisgarhi NERFINISHED
Narayanpur district Hindi
Narayanpur district Chhattisgarhi NERFINISHED
Kanker district Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kanker district Chhattisgarhi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Nowogard Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Regency of North Lombok Indonesian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Auray French via predicate surface "currentOfficialLanguage"
Kapelle-op-den-Bos Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Opwijk Dutch
Pepingen Dutch
Ternat Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Galmaarden Dutch
Lennik Dutch
Hoeilaart Dutch
Zellik Dutch
medieval parish of Ayr Latin via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Archdeacon of Horsham English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Pentapolis Latin via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Macau Peninsula Chinese
Macau Peninsula Portuguese
municipality of Grimstad
surface form: Grimstad
Norwegian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Beidaihe District Standard Chinese
Qinglong Manchu Autonomous County Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Saudi judiciary Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bra, Piedmont, Italy Italian
Croatian territorial waters Croatian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguageOfAdministration" NERFINISHED
Powiat wejherowski Polish
Regional Government of Callao Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Peruvian Football Federation Spanish
Risør municipality Norwegian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"