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
Faizabad Assembly constituency Hindi via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Bobadilla del Campo Spanish
Privislinsky Krai Russian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Nelson Region English
Nelson Region Māori
Osiek Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sultan Kudarat Province Filipino
Sultan Kudarat Province English
Canadian Food Inspection Agency English
Canadian Food Inspection Agency French
Kykotsmovi English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Taijiang District Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Glostrup Municipality Danish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Huron County, Ontario English via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Hürben German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Evanturel Township English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kharga Arabic
Muktainagar Marathi NERFINISHED
Bobadilla de Alcañiz Spanish
Limburg-Styrum-Styrum branch German via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Krapina-Zagorje County Croatian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Igbo-Eze North English
Selvagem Grande Portuguese via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Hsinchu County Mandarin Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
The Cavalry
surface form: Cavalry FC
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Holzlar Deutsch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ramersdorf
surface form: Ramersdorf (Bonn)
German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Beuel town hall German via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Cas Concos des Cavaller Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Cas Concos des Cavaller Catalan via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Son Mesquida Catalan via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Son Mesquida Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Son Negre Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Son Negre Catalan via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Kholmsky District Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
L’Île-d’Orléans Regional County Municipality French
Jemez Indian Reservation English
AFC President’s Cup English
AFC President’s Cup Arabic
AFC President’s Cup other AFC official languages
Nkambe French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Nkambe English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ngo-Ketunjia Division French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ngo-Ketunjia Division English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bakossi French via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage"
Bakossi English via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage"
Mayo-Tsanaga French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mayo-Tsanaga English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Maupiti French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Rio nell’Elba Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"