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
Euroregion Pro Europa Viadrina German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Euroregion Pro Europa Viadrina Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Xinwu District Chinese
Tuczępy Polish
Santa Cruz Province Spanish
Perth, Ontario English
Makhado Local Municipality Xitsonga via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Makhado Local Municipality Tshivenda via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Makhado Local Municipality Sepedi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Makhado Local Municipality English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Guanshan Township Mandarin Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Daren Township Mandarin Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Neulengbach German
Raoyang County Standard Chinese
Lunenburg English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Lunenburg French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Saint-Jean-de-l’Île-d’Orléans French
Ayt Sokhman dialect Morocco recognizes Tamazight as an official language via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguageContext"
Oriental region of Morocco Arabic
Oriental region of Morocco Amazigh NERFINISHED
District of Para Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Government of Suriname Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
President of Suriname Dutch via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfOffice"
Federal Office for Information Security German
Ara, Bhojpur district, Bihar, India Hindi
Ara, Bhojpur district, Bihar, India Urdu
State Council of the Udmurt Republic Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
State Council of the Udmurt Republic Udmurt via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Comune di Ampezzo Italian
Haveltermade Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Campbellton English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Campbellton French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sinda District English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Raesfeld German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kevelaer German NERFINISHED
Oulx Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Chabreloche French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Puy-Guillaume French
Néronde-sur-Dore French
Sermentizon French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Crevant-Laveine French
Saint-Julien-de-Coppel French
Sauviat French
Jan Mayen municipality Norwegian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Incheon Metropolitan City Government Korean via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Bavarians Standard German via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage" NERFINISHED
Bierges French
Comune di Rapallo Italian
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Amfilochia Greek via predicate surface "languageOfficial"