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
National Liberation Party Spanish
Consejo Nacional de Rectores de Costa Rica español
Third Philippine Republic English
Third Philippine Republic Filipino NERFINISHED
Bistrița-Năsăud Romanian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Aït Oumalou Arabic via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage"
Aït Oumalou Tamazight via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
African Commission
surface form: African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
English
African Commission
surface form: African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
French NERFINISHED
African Commission
surface form: African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
Arabic
African Commission
surface form: African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese
African Commission
surface form: African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
Spanish
African Commission
surface form: African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
Kiswahili
Nagaon Assamese NERFINISHED
Nagaon English
Tottenham English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sheguiandah village English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Township of Central Manitoulin English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Narathiwat Provincial Administration Thai language via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration" NERFINISHED
Metn District Arabic
Beit Mery Arabic
Bikfaya Arabic
Bchamoun Arabic
Deir el Qamar Arabic
East Manggarai Regency Indonesian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sremčica Serbian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Princeville English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Leggett
surface form: Leggett, North Carolina
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Guayanilla Spanish
Guayanilla English
UAR Arabic
Commune of Cannes French
municipality of Cannes
surface form: Cannes
French
Marki Polish
Ząbki Polish
Bechloul Arabic
Klepp Nynorsk via predicate surface "officialLanguageForm" NERFINISHED
Jizhou District Standard Chinese
Kachhi District Urdu via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Kachhi District English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Muan County Korean via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Langrune-sur-Mer French
Anguerny French
City of Greater Bendigo English
São José dos Pinhais Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese
Herbertshöhe German via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Edea French
municipality of Son Servera
surface form: Son Servera
Catalan
municipality of Son Servera
surface form: Son Servera
Spanish
Gmina Gródek nad Dunajcem Polish