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
Ajuntament de Portbou Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hengnan County Standard Chinese
Arcangues French
Dursunbey Turkish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tubize French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Copenhagen Municipality Danish
Manachanallur Tamil via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Perambalur Tamil NERFINISHED
Tenza Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ometepec Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Azoyú Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
San Marcos Municipality Spanish
El Cayaco Spanish
Chilpancingo de los Bravo Municipality Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Dakshin Dinajpur district Bengali via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Hengshan County Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Lesnoy Russian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Cuautla
surface form: Cuautla, Jalisco
Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Castanhal Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese
Census division of Francheville French
Briceño Spanish
Niederschöneweide German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
administration of Kurilsky District Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ogmore Valley Community Council English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ogmore Valley Community Council Welsh via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
De Vlaamse Waterweg nv Dutch
Eastern Jin dynasty Classical Chinese NERFINISHED
Nanjing Municipal Government Standard Chinese via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration" NERFINISHED
Hunan Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security Chinese via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialUse"
Parish of St Peter Port English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Parish of St Peter Port Guernésiais via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Orlík nad Vltavou Czech
Viking, Alberta English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Buraidah Arabic
Ajijic Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Ayotlán Municipality Spanish
Grady County English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sankt Marein im Mürztal German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Constitutional Review Committee English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Constitutional Review Committee Nauruan via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kapuvár Hungarian NERFINISHED
Yaren Constituency English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Yaren Constituency Nauruan via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
A-League Women English
Panemunė, Lithuania Lithuanian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sovetsky Urban Okrug Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Βουλή των Αντιπροσώπων Greek via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Βουλή των Αντιπροσώπων Turkish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tongchuan Chinese
Didouche Mourad District Arabic via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfCountry"