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
Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi Arabic
Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi English
Stjørdal Norwegian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Ganyu District Chinese
Notsi people Tok Pisin via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Notsi people English via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Notsi people Hiri Motu via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Erstfeld German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sivasagar Assamese NERFINISHED
Suldal Norwegian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Oberbachem German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Canoas Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese
1962 Asian Games Indonesian
1962 Asian Games English
Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture Japanese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Łomnica Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Jamuria Bengali NERFINISHED
Jamuria English
البدرشين العربية
village of Al-Haram (rural areas) Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
village of Al-Qata'ah
surface form: Al-Qata'ah
Arabic
Badrashin city Arabic
Savaştepe Turkish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Karesi Turkish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kushva Russian
Canmore English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mumbra Marathi NERFINISHED
Thuraiyur Tamil NERFINISHED
Pudukkottai district Tamil NERFINISHED
Bozhurishte Municipality Bulgarian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Balrampur district Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Seddouk Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Douvres-la-Délivrande French
Aïn Abid District Arabic
Benalmádena Spanish
Potočari Bosnian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Potočari Serbian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Potočari Croatian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Havran Turkish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Pilani Hindi
Pilani Rajasthani NERFINISHED
Grenville, Quebec French
Safed subdistrict English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Safed subdistrict Arabic via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Safed subdistrict Hebrew via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Bapatla, Andhra Pradesh, India
surface form: Bapatla
Telugu NERFINISHED
Quickborn German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Chakdaha Bengali NERFINISHED
La Barca Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED