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
Stein Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Korsakovsky District, Sakhalin Oblast Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Zilla Parishad Gadchiroli Marathi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Jala Municipality Spanish
Rosamorada (town) Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Anykščiai Lithuanian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ukmergė Lithuanian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Anykščiai District Municipality Lithuanian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Ukmergė District Municipality Lithuanian
Small Point–Adam's Cove–Blackhead–Broad Cove English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
North River, Newfoundland and Labrador English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Makinsons English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Old Perlican English
Pirot Serbian NERFINISHED
Liers French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Milmort French
North Caldwell Police Department English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Húsar Faroese NERFINISHED
Warnes Municipality Spanish
Warnes Province Spanish
Sara Province Spanish
Florida Province Spanish
Vallegrande Province Spanish via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfAdministration"
Quilleco Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Altamirano, Chiapas Spanish
Satara district Marathi NERFINISHED
Goiana, Pernambuco, Brazil
surface form: Goiana
Portuguese
Temon Indonesian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs of South Korea Korean
Lindau (Bodensee) district German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Chickasaw tribal jurisdiction area English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
2011 National Assembly for Wales election English via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialMaterials"
2011 National Assembly for Wales election Welsh via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialMaterials"
Crown in right of England English via predicate surface "primaryLanguageOfAdministration"
Helsingør Municipality Danish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico Spanish
Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico English
Guanyun County Standard Chinese
Samsan-myeon Korean via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Choctaw tribal jurisdiction area English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Western North Region, Ghana English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ogre Municipality Latvian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Municipality of Caucaia Portuguese
municipal government of Caucaia Portuguese
Camocim (urban area) Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Zeuthen German
Bunnik Dutch
Waiblingen German
Burghausen German NERFINISHED
Puerto Real Spanish