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
Gmina Grybów Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gmina Kamionka Wielka Polish
Gmina Korzenna Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gmina Łabowa Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gmina Łososina Dolna Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gmina Nawojowa Polish
Gmina Podegrodzie Polish
Gmina Stary Sącz Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kežmarok District Slovak via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Iputinga, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
surface form: Iputinga
Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese
French département of Mont-Terrible
surface form: Mont-Terrible
French
Devon County Council English
district of Celle German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Changdao County Standard Chinese
Aït Toudert Arabic
Bremgarten German
Dhubri Assamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Dhubri Bengali via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Eirisgeigh
surface form: Eriskay
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Eirisgeigh English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
municipality of Santanyí
surface form: Santanyí
Catalan
municipality of Santanyí
surface form: Santanyí
Spanish
Zlatitsa Municipality Bulgarian
Castelfranco Veneto Italian
Djimla Arabic
Colonia Romero Rubio Spanish
Parish of St. Saviour, Jersey English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Parish of St. Saviour, Jersey French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Parish of Grouville, Jersey English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Parish of Grouville, Jersey French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sjenica Serbian NERFINISHED
Nova Varoš Serbian
Rožaje Montenegrin via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
muftiluks (mufti districts) Bosnian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Churriana Spanish
Devipatan division Hindi
Samborzec Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Aarschot Dutch
Yeongdeungpo-dong Korean
Ouvéa Island French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Dillon’s Bay Bislama via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Dillon’s Bay English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Dillon’s Bay French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Port-Salut Arrondissement French
Port-Salut Arrondissement Haitian Creole NERFINISHED
Municipal government of Morada Nova Portuguese via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Roman province of Dacia Latin
town of Kotel
surface form: Kotel
Bulgarian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
town of Sliven
surface form: Sliven
Bulgarian
Savur, Mardin, Turkey
surface form: Savur
Turkish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"