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
Mississauga—Erin Mills English
Mississauga—Erin Mills French
parish of St Helier
surface form: Parish of St Helier
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mukalla Arabic
Yaghma Turkic via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration" NERFINISHED
Manapparai Tamil via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Chelopech Municipality Bulgarian
Zacoalco de Torres Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Buraidah, Saudi Arabia
surface form: Buraidah
Arabic
Town of Plympton–Wyoming English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Town of Enniskillen English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Town of Dawn-Euphemia English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
St. Clair English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Buka English
Buka Tok Pisin NERFINISHED
Buka Hiri Motu NERFINISHED
Kaingaroa (Chatham Islands) English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kaingaroa (Chatham Islands) Māori via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kaingaroa (Chatham Islands) Moriori via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Trinidad Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ananindeua Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Tiruverumbur Tamil NERFINISHED
Ri Bhoi district English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mirkovo Municipality Bulgarian
Gmina Kąty Wrocławskie Polish
Belagavi City Corporation Kannada via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration" NERFINISHED
French colonial administration in Laos French via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage" NERFINISHED
French colonial administration in Laos Lao via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage" NERFINISHED
Sulzheim German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Yuhui District Mandarin Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Zuidvelde Dutch
Fushan District Chinese
Lakhipur Assamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Lakhipur Bengali via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Lakhipur English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
El Kseur Arabic
Juanacatlán Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Banten Regency Indonesian
Genga Italian
Fanø Danish
Doberdob Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
modern Montenegro
surface form: Montenegro
Montenegrin via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Lieksa Finnish
Kitee Finnish NERFINISHED
Nurmes Finnish
"Tegueste"
surface form: Tegueste
Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
"Tegueste"
surface form: Tegueste
Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
"Adeje"
surface form: Adeje
Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Ministerio de Transportes y Movilidad Sostenible (Spain)
surface form: Ministerio de Transportes y Movilidad Sostenible
español
Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
surface form: Spanish National Research Council
Spanish