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
Zio Prefecture French
Zonhoven Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Camerino Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Executive branch of Bangladesh Bengali via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Ministry of Public Administration (Bangladesh) Bengali via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
EC
surface form: Election Commission of Bangladesh
Bengali via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Thiruvananthapuram district Malayalam via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Vijayanagara district Kannada NERFINISHED
Cochin Devaswom Board Malayalam via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Bucharest City Hall Romanian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
municipality of Thônex
surface form: Thônex
French
Mora Spanish
Santa Ana Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Utajärvi Finnish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Lamboya district Indonesian
Bijnor Hindi
Shamli Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Maulévrier, Maine-et-Loire, France French
Lobberich German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Jiangxia District Standard Chinese
San Sebastián, Puerto Rico Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
San Sebastián, Puerto Rico English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Cheongnyang-eup Korean
Municipality of Maricao Spanish
Municipality of Maricao English
Bozcaada Turkish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
General Secretariat of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Arabic
General Secretariat of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation English
General Secretariat of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation French
Draa El Mizan Arabic
Larbaa Nath Irathen Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ouadhia Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Tizi Gheniff Arabic
M’kira Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Makouda Arabic
Ouacif Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Frikat Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Maatkas Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Iferhounène Arabic
Illoula Oumalou Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
伊勢市 Japanese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Boždarevac Serbian via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Nam-gu, Busan Korean
Friedeburg German
Poggiorsini Italian
Municipality of Astypalaia Greek
Yantai Municipal People's Government Standard Chinese
Kalmar FF Swedish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
African Cup Winners' Cup French
African Cup Winners' Cup English