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
municipality of Chía
surface form: Municipality of Chía
Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Funza municipality Spanish
Bojacá Municipality Spanish
National Planning Department of Colombia Spanish
National Administrative Department of Statistics of Colombia Spanish
Skolkovo, Moscow Oblast, Russia Russian
Chyornaya Rechka area Russian via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Kota Tinggi District Malay via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Quain, Saône-et-Loire, France
surface form: Quain
French
Le Mesnil-Saint-Denis, France
surface form: Le Mesnil-Saint-Denis
French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Chekfa Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Settara Arabic
El Aouana Arabic
Texenna Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Kaous Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Ghebala Arabic
Ghebala Arabic via predicate surface "nationalLanguage"
Djemaa Beni Habibi Arabic
Djemaa Beni Habibi Arabic via predicate surface "nationalLanguage"
El Ancer Arabic
El Ancer Arabic via predicate surface "nationalLanguage"
Beni Yadjis Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Tlajomulco de Zúñiga (city) Spanish
El Salto Spanish
Cieza Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Central Arava Regional Council Hebrew via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bnei Shimon Regional Council Hebrew via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
מחוז הדרום עברית via predicate surface "שפה רשמית"
Rosh HaAyin Hebrew via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Lehavim Hebrew
declaration hall
surface form: Declaration Hall
Hebrew via predicate surface "languageOfDeclaration"
Thai Binh City Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
People's Committee of Thai Binh Province Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
My Loc Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Thuraiyur taluk Tamil NERFINISHED
Manachanallur taluk Tamil NERFINISHED
Tiruchirappalli taluk Tamil
Aileu Tetum NERFINISHED
Aileu Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese
Ainaro Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese
Ainaro Tetum NERFINISHED
Ermera Tetum NERFINISHED
Ermera Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese
Manufahi Tetum NERFINISHED
Manufahi Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese
Caldogno Italian
Doon English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Chizhou Municipal People's Government Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Municipal Chamber of Braga Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sumba Regency Indonesian