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
Yamoussoukro Autonomous District French
Rudovci Serbian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Junkovac Serbian NERFINISHED
Sanhe Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Dachang Hui Autonomous County Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Halsnæs Municipality Danish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Xinpi Township Mandarin Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Xishan District Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Hienghène French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Uspantán Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
municipality of Jacaltenango Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mangroves National Park French via predicate surface "languageOfLocalAdministration"
Lukula French NERFINISHED
Tshela French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Province No. 7 Nepali via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Amargadhi Nepali via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Jhalari Pipaladi Nepali NERFINISHED
Gonda Assembly constituency Hindi via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration" NERFINISHED
Aneityum language Vanuatu is officially multilingual via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguageContext"
Torba Province Bislama NERFINISHED
Torba Province English
Torba Province French
Vures Bislama via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Vures English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Vures French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Danish-Norwegian monarchy Danish
Danish-Norwegian monarchy Dano-Norwegian
La Digue and Inner Islands District English
La Digue and Inner Islands District French
La Digue and Inner Islands District Seychellois Creole NERFINISHED
Chiomonte Italian NERFINISHED
Arrondissement of Cap-Haïtien French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Arrondissement of Cap-Haïtien Haitian Creole via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Privas, France
surface form: Privas
French
Karamchedu Telugu
Chipata English
Siliguri Municipal Corporation Bengali via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Siliguri Municipal Corporation English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hồng Đức classical Chinese via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Xuan Truong Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Lien Bang Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Mishmar HaSharon Hebrew via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Dzaoudzi French
Kobe City Hall Japanese via predicate surface "hasLanguageOfOfficialBusiness"
Department of Hauts-de-Seine
surface form: Hauts-de-Seine
French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Lima Mint Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público español
Borken German
Rhede German
Heiden German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"