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
Altai Krai Legislative Assembly Russian
Oftringen German
Nájera Spanish
La Yesca Municipality Spanish
Vezza d'Alba Italian
Municipality of Yabucoa Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Municipality of Yabucoa English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Woolwich Township English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Montero Municipality Spanish
Kolhapur district Marathi NERFINISHED
Ormåsen Norwegian Bokmål via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Peñuelas, Puerto Rico Spanish
Peñuelas, Puerto Rico English
Simplon village German
Campos Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Campos Catalan via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Maldives Monetary Authority Dhivehi via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfJurisdiction" NERFINISHED
Maldives Monetary Authority English via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfJurisdiction"
government of Maldives
surface form: Government of Maldives
Dhivehi via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfAdministration" NERFINISHED
Etten Island English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguageOfCountry"
province of Drenthe
surface form: Drenthe
Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bruchsal German NERFINISHED
Bilzen Dutch
Edna, Kansas English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Leer district German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ochtersum (Ostfriesland) German
MFO English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Taoyuan City Council Mandarin Chinese
Department of Education of Taoyuan City Government Chinese
Department of Education of Taoyuan City Government Mandarin Chinese NERFINISHED
Department of Labor of Taoyuan City Government Chinese
Department of Labor of Taoyuan City Government Mandarin Chinese
Department of Land Administration of Taoyuan City Government Mandarin Chinese via predicate surface "officialLanguageUsed"
Government of Sint Maarten Dutch via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Government of Sint Maarten English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Rajah of Sarawak English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Rajah of Sarawak Malay via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Brooke dynasty English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Brooke dynasty Malay via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Diest Dutch
Trondheim municipality Bokmål Norwegian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Kamyensk-Shakhtinsky Russian
Blatzheim German
Vranić Serbian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Trou-du-Nord French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Trou-du-Nord Haitian Creole via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Mont-Organisé French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mont-Organisé Haitian Creole via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Rheda-Wiedenbrück German
municipal council of Figeac French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"