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 Gambier French
El Rosario, Sinaloa Spanish
Salaspils Municipality Latvian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ludza Latvian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Agaléga English
Agaléga French
Réduit, Moka District, Mauritius English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
IOR-ARC English
Villigen German NERFINISHED
Kreis Stendal German via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Hazebrouck French
Yanping Township Mandarin Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Winzingen German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Fifth Republic of South Korea Korean
Houaïlou French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Houaïlou commune French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Nukulaelae Tuvaluan via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Nukulaelae English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Villigen PSI German
Birmensdorf, Canton of Zurich, Switzerland German
Cadenazzo, Canton of Ticino, Switzerland
surface form: Cadenazzo
Italian
gmina Mogilno Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Arque Province Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Pallars Jussà Catalan NERFINISHED
Pallars Jussà Spanish
Alt Urgell Catalan NERFINISHED
Alt Urgell Spanish
Papua Indonesian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Lisia Góra Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Manheim German
municipality of De Ronde Venen
surface form: De Ronde Venen
Dutch
Superintendencia de Insolvencia y Reemprendimiento Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Subsecretaría de Economía y Empresas de Menor Tamaño Spanish
Subsecretaría de Turismo Spanish
Knittelfeld German
Aulnat French
Slate Falls English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Las Marías, Puerto Rico Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Las Marías, Puerto Rico English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kingdom of Chile Spanish
Municipality of Jayuya Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Municipality of Jayuya English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Municipality of Rincón Spanish
Municipality of Rincón English
Limassol District Greek
Tétouan Province Arabic
Loyalty Islands Province French
Nam-gu Korean
Ministry of Defense of Syria Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Trebnje Slovene