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
Lüneburg district German
Dadu District Sindhi via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Dadu District Urdu via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Hengdong County Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Marmara Turkish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Degtyarsk Russian via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfCountry" NERFINISHED
Kiowa County, Oklahoma English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Östhammar Municipality Swedish
Palauli Samoan via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Palauli English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Satupaʻitea Samoan
Satupaʻitea English
Gagaʻemauga Samoan via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gagaʻemauga English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gagaʻifomauga Samoan via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Gagaʻifomauga English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Vaisigano Samoan via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Vaisigano English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Faʻasaleleaga Samoan via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Faʻasaleleaga English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Salega Samoan via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Salega English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
NarNarayan Dev Gadi Gujarati via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
NarNarayan Dev Gadi Hindi via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration" NERFINISHED
NarNarayan Dev Gadi English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Madras, India Tamil NERFINISHED
Sovodnje ob Soči Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Nam-gu
surface form: Nam-gu, Busan
Korean
Gamman-dong Korean
Aarhus Municipality Danish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Harrislee German NERFINISHED
Uttaradit province Thai
Baharu Bengali NERFINISHED
Baharu English
Duitamense Spanish is official language in Duitama via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfRegion"
Northern Boyacá Province Spanish
Phungling Nepali via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Nandyal Telugu NERFINISHED
Vorë Albanian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gosaba Bengali NERFINISHED
Rajpur Sonarpur Bengali NERFINISHED
Aïn Bessem Arabic via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfCountry" NERFINISHED
Buru Regency Indonesian language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Shigu District Standard Mandarin NERFINISHED
Dallas English
Dallas English
Roche VD French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Rossinière French
Sochi city administration Russian
Canton of Glarus German