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
Municipality of Elefsina Greek
Baojing County Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Costermano sul Garda Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Laren Dutch
Huizen Dutch
City of Essen German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Durango Basque via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Durango Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Dilsen-Stokkem Dutch
Mocorito Municipality Spanish
Avigliano Umbro Italian
Purbalingga Regency Indonesian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Belarus national football team Belarusian via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfTeamCountry"
Belarus national football team Russian via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfTeamCountry"
Balochistan High Court English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Balochistan High Court Urdu via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Campaspe Shire Council English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Town of Herkimer English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Federal Correctional Institution, Ray Brook English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguageOfAdministration"
Judiciary of Kenya English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Judiciary of Kenya Kiswahili via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
County Governments
surface form: County Governments of Kenya
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
County Governments
surface form: County Governments of Kenya
Kiswahili via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ristijärvi Finnish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
NUTS2 region Northern and Eastern Finland
surface form: Northern and Eastern Finland
Finnish via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Joroinen Finnish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Green Spring, Hampshire County, Virginia English via predicate surface "hasLanguageOfAdministration"
Hampshire County, Colony of Virginia English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Vaiaku Tuvaluan NERFINISHED
Vaiaku English
Neuf-Brisach French
Mulchén Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tucapel Spanish
Sutton London Borough Council English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Jalgaon Municipal Corporation Marathi via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Jalgaon Municipal Corporation English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
BAL English
BAL French
BAL Arabic
BAL Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese
Aguada, Puerto Rico Spanish
Aguada, Puerto Rico English
Berwick, Ontario English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Berwick, Ontario French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Raivavae French NERFINISHED
Stężyca County Polish via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Bagdogra Bengali NERFINISHED
Bagdogra English
Madhyamgram Bengali NERFINISHED
Khardaha Bengali via predicate surface "languageOfficial" NERFINISHED