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
African Cup Winners' Cup Arabic
2004 CAF Confederation Cup English
2004 CAF Confederation Cup French
2004 CAF Confederation Cup Arabic
United Nations (through the state of Zambia)
surface form: United Nations
Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
United Nations (through the state of Zambia)
surface form: United Nations
Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
United Nations (through the state of Zambia)
surface form: United Nations
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
United Nations (through the state of Zambia)
surface form: United Nations
French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
United Nations (through the state of Zambia)
surface form: United Nations
Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
United Nations (through the state of Zambia)
surface form: United Nations
Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kasama English
Ndola English
Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development (Zambia) English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child English
African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child French
African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child Arabic
African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese
African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child African Union working languages
Dindigul district Tamil
Mirzapur division Hindi
District Administration Mirzapur Hindi via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Bureau of Indian Standards Hindi
Bureau of Indian Standards English
Hetauda Nepali
Koblenz (Aargau) German
Bergrheinfeld German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Celano Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Seo District, Incheon Korean
Kinnaur Hindi
Sestao Spanish
Sestao Basque NERFINISHED
Larrau French
Yecheon County Korean
Narsinghpur district Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Huayuan County Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Wiikwemkoong First Nation English
Thonburi Kingdom Thai language NERFINISHED
Beichuan Qiang Autonomous County Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sherani District Urdu via predicate surface "officialLanguageCountry" NERFINISHED
Zvornik Bosnian NERFINISHED
Zvornik Serbian NERFINISHED
Zvornik Croatian
Dr. Ambedkar Nagar Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mhow Cantonment Board Hindi via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration" NERFINISHED
Mhow Cantonment Board English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Bannock County English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Grosser Stadtrat Luzern German
Skikda Province Arabic
Skikda Province Tamazight via predicate surface "nationalLanguage" NERFINISHED
Skikda, Algeria
surface form: Skikda
Arabic