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
Eickeloh German
Grethem German
El Vendrell Catalan
El Vendrell Spanish
Zuberoa French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Lommatzsch German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Aït Yahia Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Madurai Nayak dynasty Telugu via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage" NERFINISHED
Madurai Nayak dynasty Tamil via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Thanjavur district Tamil NERFINISHED
Swamimalai Town Panchayat Tamil via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Qilian County Standard Chinese
Modasa Gujarati via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Modasa Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Governor of Lower Canada English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Independencia Province Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Yongshun County Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Achinsk Russian via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfCountry" NERFINISHED
Ashmore and Cartier Islands English
Hvidovre Municipality Danish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
modern city of Tyre Arabic
Beirut (approx. 80 km north)
surface form: Beirut
Arabic
Tarakeswar Municipality Bengali via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Tarakeswar Municipality English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Barasat subdivision Bengali via predicate surface "languageOfficial" NERFINISHED
Verson French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sunset, Utah English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Runzhou District Chinese
Morewood, Ontario English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Morewood, Ontario French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Jaffarabad District Urdu via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Chester English
Oudewater, County of Holland, Habsburg Netherlands
surface form: Oudewater
Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Wilmot English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Western Area Rural District Council English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ifs French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mondeville French
Fleury-sur-Orne French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Giberville French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Thury-Harcourt-le-Hom French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Creully sur Seulles French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bavent French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
May-sur-Orne French
Évrecy French
Cheux French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tilly-sur-Seulles French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Thaon French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Carpiquet French
Banville French
Cresserons French