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
United States Virgin Islands territorial park system English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Ngazidja Comorian
Ngazidja Arabic
Ngazidja French NERFINISHED
Government of Comoros Comorian via predicate surface "officialLanguageUsed"
Government of Comoros Arabic via predicate surface "officialLanguageUsed"
Government of Comoros French via predicate surface "officialLanguageUsed" NERFINISHED
Thiruchendur Municipality Tamil via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Eastern Province English
Lalgudi Tamil NERFINISHED
Musiri Tamil NERFINISHED
Thiruverumbur taluk Tamil NERFINISHED
Srirangam taluk Tamil
Srirangam taluk Tamil via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage" NERFINISHED
Lalgudi taluk Tamil NERFINISHED
Musiri taluk Tamil NERFINISHED
Thottiyam taluk Tamil NERFINISHED
Namakkal district Tamil NERFINISHED
Mizque Province Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation Odia via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
2023 Men’s FIH Hockey World Cup (co-host) English
Nan’yō Chō Japanese
Nan’yō Government Japanese
Craig Henry English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Craig Henry French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tanglewood English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tanglewood French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
جيبوتي اللغة العربية via predicate surface "لغة_رسمية"
جيبوتي اللغة الفرنسية via predicate surface "لغة_رسمية"
municipality of Krimpenerwaard
surface form: Krimpenerwaard
Dutch
Khmelnytskyi Raion Ukrainian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Thuin French
Aulnoye-Aymeries French
Gryfino Polish
Renfrewshire council area English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mahé (Puducherry Assembly constituency) Tamil via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mahé (Puducherry Assembly constituency) Malayalam via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mahé (Puducherry Assembly constituency) English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Dobrada Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Merriam English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Lilongwe City Council English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Lilongwe City Council Chichewa via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration" NERFINISHED
Reserve Bank of Malawi English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Government of Malawi English via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfAdministration" NERFINISHED
Executive branch of Malawi English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration" NERFINISHED
Executive branch of Malawi Chichewa via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Municipal government of Aracaju Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese
Balatonboglár District Hungarian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Dispur, Assam
surface form: Dispur
Assamese