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
Hamirpur Nagar Palika Parishad Hindi via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration" NERFINISHED
Sultanpur Assembly constituency Hindi via predicate surface "hasLanguageOfAdministration"
Pratapgarh city Hindi
Kunda Assembly constituency Hindi
Chandauli Assembly constituency Hindi via predicate surface "languageUsedInOfficialProceedings"
Mughalsarai Assembly constituency Hindi via predicate surface "languageUsedInOfficialProceedings" NERFINISHED
Nagar Palika Parishad Balrampur Hindi via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Balrampur Vidhan Sabha constituencies Hindi via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Pećani Serbian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Petite Rivière de l’Artibonite French
Family Court of Australia English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Liedekerke Dutch
Haizhou District Standard Chinese
Unua people Bislama via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Unua people English via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage"
Unua people French via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage"
Poppenhausen German NERFINISHED
Utuado, Puerto Rico Spanish
Utuado, Puerto Rico English
Union of Transylvania with Romania Romanian via predicate surface "languageOfDeclaration"
Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Judicial branch of Ohio English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Canton of Granville French
Brechou English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Giresun Turkish
Pup’yŏng-gu Korean
Maryland colonial government English
Wojciechowice Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Izegem Dutch
Chinsurah Bengali NERFINISHED
Chinsurah English
Qidong County Chinese
Hengyang Municipal People's Government Standard Chinese via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration" NERFINISHED
Bassussarry French
Tarnos French
Angol (for Malleco)
surface form: Angol
Spanish
TMC Marathi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
TMC English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Naupada Marathi NERFINISHED
Kalwa Marathi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Halle city hall Dutch via predicate surface "primaryLanguageOfAdministration"
Coswig, Germany German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kolda, Senegal French
Gmina Gołdap Polish
Matosinhos Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese
Kaushambi district Hindi
Municipality of Lagos de Moreno Spanish
Teocaltiche Spanish
Unión de Tula Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Magdalena, Jalisco Spanish