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 Union (through the state of Zambia)
surface form: African Union
Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese
African Union (through the state of Zambia)
surface form: African Union
Spanish
African Union (through the state of Zambia)
surface form: African Union
Swahili NERFINISHED
African Union (through the state of Zambia)
surface form: African Union
African languages
Yenice Turkish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Bristol, New York English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tessenderlo Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Oddar Meanchey Province Khmer NERFINISHED
Boulgou Province French
Centre-Est Region French
Arrondissement of Cayenne French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hihifo Tongan NERFINISHED
Hihifo English
commune of L’Haÿ-les-Roses
surface form: L’Haÿ-les-Roses
French
commune of Cachan
surface form: Cachan
French
commune of Arcueil
surface form: Arcueil
French
commune of Villejuif
surface form: Villejuif
French
commune of Villeneuve-le-Roi
surface form: Villeneuve-le-Roi
French
commune of Vitry-sur-Seine
surface form: Vitry-sur-Seine
French
Luxi County Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Niederfeld German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
flag of Benin French via predicate surface "officialLanguageCountry"
City of Midfield English via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialBusiness"
Maghreb Bank for Investment and Foreign Trade Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Maghreb Bank for Investment and Foreign Trade French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
African Union Advisory Board on Corruption English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
African Union Advisory Board on Corruption French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
African Union Advisory Board on Corruption Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
African Union Advisory Board on Corruption Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
African Union Advisory Board on Corruption Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
African Union Advisory Board on Corruption Kiswahili via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Itoman City Hall Japanese via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialBusiness"
Pieria Prefecture Greek
Department of Culture and Language Policy of the Basque Government Basque language via predicate surface "officialLanguageFocus"
Department of Culture and Language Policy of the Basque Government Spanish language via predicate surface "officialLanguageFocus" NERFINISHED
Campero Province Spanish
Limón Province Spanish
Otopeni Romanian NERFINISHED
Konnagar Bengali via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Bhadreswar Bengali
Bhadreswar English
Lumding railway division Assamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Lumding railway division English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Lumding railway division Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Vitznau German
Shoalwater Bay Indian Reservation English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hollabrunn German
Södra Möckleby Swedish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Whitewater Region English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mandra Greek