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
Paillant Haitian Creole via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Petite-Rivière-de-Nippes French
Petite-Rivière-de-Nippes Haitian Creole NERFINISHED
LʼAsile French
LʼAsile Haitian Creole NERFINISHED
Barradères French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Barradères Haitian Creole via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Government of Haiti French
Government of Haiti Haitian Creole NERFINISHED
Tula de Allende Municipality Spanish
Katowice Voivodeship (1975–1998) Polish
Neive Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Dogliani Italian
Warka Polish
Haiming, Germany German
Île Bizard French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Île Bizard English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bongor French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bongor Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Logone-et-Chari Department French
Logone-et-Chari Department English
Iruña Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Pamplona, Colombia Spanish
Pierrefonds, Quebec, Canada French
Pierrefonds, Quebec, Canada English
Oizé, Sarthe, France
surface form: Oizé
French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hedemora Municipality Swedish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mashishing English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mashishing Afrikaans via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mashishing isiZulu via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Mashishing siSwati via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Apostolic Vicar of Dakar French via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
General Bravo Spanish
Pesquería Spanish
CEV Champions League English
CEV Champions League French
CEV Champions League German
European Volleyball Confederation English
European Volleyball Confederation French
European Volleyball Confederation German
Bubi Rural District Council English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Bubi Rural District Council Ndebele via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration" NERFINISHED
Gravataí, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
surface form: Gravataí
Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gravataí, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
surface form: Gravataí
Portuguese via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Inter-American Children’s Institute Spanish
Inter-American Children’s Institute English
Inter-American Children’s Institute Portuguese
Vinovo Italian
Kaohsiung City Government Mandarin Chinese NERFINISHED
Lipník nad Bečvou Czech via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"