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
Commune of Hauterive French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative English
Ōhinehou te reo Māori via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguageContext" NERFINISHED
Tasman English
Tasman Māori
Migdal HaEmek Municipality Hebrew via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tower of the Valley
surface form: Migdal HaEmek
Hebrew via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mambajao Filipino
Mambajao English
Raver Marathi NERFINISHED
Amalner Marathi via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Pachora Marathi NERFINISHED
Bodwad Marathi NERFINISHED
Erandol Marathi
Chopda Marathi NERFINISHED
Westvoorne (historically)
surface form: Westvoorne
Dutch
Le Tampon French
Zemst (town)
surface form: Zemst
Dutch
Elewijt Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Eppegem Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Weerde Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Szereda (colloquial Hungarian)
surface form: Miercurea Ciuc
Romanian
Capannole Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Duddova Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Pogi Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Solata Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Papalotla Spanish
Łobez Polish
Autlán de Navarro Municipality Spanish
Ploërmel French
First Herbert Ministry English via predicate surface "languageOfGovernment"
Chromepet Tamil via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Narayanganj District Bengali
Somerset Ward English
Somerset Ward French
Kvitsøy Norwegian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible de Argentina español
Masud I of Rum Persian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Earldom of Fife Latin via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Marigot French
First Saudi State Arabic
Portneuf Regional County Municipality French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Chaudière-Appalaches French
Hochelaga French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hochelaga English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Alfred-Pellan French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Alfred-Pellan English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Marc-Aurèle-Fortin French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Montarville English and French (Canada) via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguageContext"
Pierre-Boucher—Les Patriotes—Verchères French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"