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
Teller English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Daejeon Metropolitan City Government Korean
Tobi Island Palauan via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tobi Island English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hatohobei Palauan via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hatohobei English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Saint-Maurice-d'Ételan French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tabar people Tok Pisin via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Tabar people English via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage"
Tabar people Hiri Motu via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Crevalcore Italian
Municipality of Guánica Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Municipality of Guánica English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
2018–19 Serie A Femminile Italian
Alta Ribagorça Catalan NERFINISHED
Alta Ribagorça Spanish
Sainte-Geneviève neighbourhood French
Lagodekhi Municipality Georgian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Zevenhuizen-Moerkapelle Dutch
Orio, Gipuzkoa, Spain
surface form: Orio
Basque NERFINISHED
Orio, Gipuzkoa, Spain
surface form: Orio
Spanish
Brzezinka Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Nawabganj Upazila Bengali via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kraainem Dutch
Kraainem French
Woodlawn Memorial Park English via predicate surface "hasLanguageOfLocalAdministration"
Anping County Standard Chinese
Hormigueros, Puerto Rico Spanish
Hormigueros, Puerto Rico English
North Ossetian ASSR Russian
North Ossetian ASSR Ossetian
Mittersill German
Villalba Italian
Palombara Sabina Italian
Virú Province Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Santiago de Chuco Province Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Juárez, Nuevo León Spanish
Vollore-Montagne French
FIL World Luge Championships 2008 German
FIL World Luge Championships 2008 English
Ocala, Florida, United States English
Moronene people Indonesian via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage"
Yakutsk Ostrog Russian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Germantown Fire Department English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hutchins English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Saint-François-de-l’Île-d’Orléans French
ʻOhonua Tongan via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
ʻOhonua English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Santiago del Teide Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Strücklingen German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"