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
Regency of Algiers Ottoman Turkish NERFINISHED
Las Margaritas, Chiapas Spanish
Gryon, Vaud, Switzerland
surface form: Gryon
French
Roche, Vaud, Switzerland French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Terengganu Sultanate Malay via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ungchon-myeon Korean
Achham District Nepali via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
PASO Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
PASO English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
PASO French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
PASO Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Brazilian Olympic Committee Portuguese
Argentine Olympic Committee Spanish
Colombian Olympic Committee Spanish
Venezuelan Olympic Committee Spanish
Jamaica Olympic Association English
Guatemalan Olympic Committee Spanish
Costa Rican Olympic Committee Spanish
Ecuadorian Olympic Committee Spanish
Baule language none via predicate surface "isOfficialLanguageOf"
Röthlein German
Tlemcen Arabic
Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries Arabic
North Andros English
El Fuerte Municipality Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Choix Municipality Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Municipal government of Choix Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Maguarichi Municipality Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Concordia Municipality Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Shache County Standard Chinese
Pishan County Standard Chinese
Bisceglie Italian
Tobolsky District Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Metropolitan of Siberia Russian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Seminara Italian
Ermont, France
surface form: Ermont
French
Fale Alea Tongan via predicate surface "officialLanguageUsed"
Fale Alea English via predicate surface "officialLanguageUsed" NERFINISHED
Glen Haven English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Glen Haven French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Wanhatti Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Hungarian state Hungarian NERFINISHED
Jecheon Korean
Busan Metropolitan City authorities Korean
Las Vegas Indian Colony English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Snow Mountain Reservation English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Municipality of Obrenovac Serbian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Corozal District English
Gmina Zakopane Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gmina Biały Dunajec Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"