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
Southern Peninsula Region Icelandic
Kapaklı Turkish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Sétif Province Arabic
Nabatieh Governorate Arabic
Wiederau German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Lebern region German
Kadiria Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kadiria Tamazight via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
El Mokrani Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
El Mokrani Tamazight via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Grindavíkurbær Icelandic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Italian government of Bettino Craxi Italian via predicate surface "languageOfGovernment"
co-principality of Andorra
surface form: Co-Principality of Andorra
Catalan
General Council of the Valleys Catalan
Ministry of National Defense of Cambodia Khmer via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kep Province Khmer
Modugno Italian
Bouzeguene Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Aït Mahmoud Arabic via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfCountry"
Marbella Spanish
Chattogram District Bengali
Hingalganj Bengali NERFINISHED
Udalguri district Assamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Udalguri district Bodo via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Udalguri district English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Colombelles French
Boulon French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Paphos District Greek
Paphos District Turkish
Sindo Korean via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Vignale Monferrato Italian
Ciudad Ojeda Spanish
San Francisco, Zulia Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
town of Waidhofen an der Thaya
surface form: Waidhofen an der Thaya
German
Mszana Dolna Polish NERFINISHED
Slivnitsa Municipality Bulgarian
Etropole Municipality Bulgarian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Anton Municipality Bulgarian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Butera Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Massa Marittima Italian NERFINISHED
Tortolì Italian
Jerzu Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Aydat French
Panazol French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Parc naturel régional Périgord-Limousin French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Executive branch of the Government of the United States Virgin Islands English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Sirohi district Hindi
Sirohi district Rajasthani NERFINISHED
Wellesley English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kavajë Albanian