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
municipality of Mogán Spanish
Krosno Odrzańskie Polish
Naya Raipur Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Naya Raipur Chhattisgarhi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Central Flores peoples Indonesian via predicate surface "nationalLanguage"
Fatehpur District
surface form: Fatehpur district
Hindi
Fatehpur District
surface form: Fatehpur district
Urdu NERFINISHED
Huarong County Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Neu-Ulm district German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Trissino Italian
Hazerswoude-Rijndijk Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Krommenie Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Pangkor Island Malay via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Goch German
Godawari Nepali via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Nishi Ward
surface form: Nishi Ward, Kumamoto
Japanese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Puerto Rondón Spanish
L’Anse-au-Clair English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Fermont, Quebec French
Salamanca, Coquimbo Region, Chile Spanish
Weihai Municipal Government Standard Chinese via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration" NERFINISHED
Yamaska Regional County Municipality French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
State of Bremen German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Rrogozhinë Albanian NERFINISHED
Kamëz Albanian
Municipality of Tirana Albanian
Municipality of Shijak Albanian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Koshi Province Nepali NERFINISHED
Government of Sikkim English
Government of Sikkim Nepali NERFINISHED
Government of Sikkim Sikkimese
Government of Sikkim Lepcha NERFINISHED
Gyalshing English
Gyalshing Nepali NERFINISHED
Gyalshing Sikkimese
Gyalshing Lepcha NERFINISHED
Dhone Telugu via predicate surface "languageOfficial" NERFINISHED
Prakasam district Telugu NERFINISHED
Ahlen German
Kreis Borken German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kreis Viersen (partial)
surface form: Kreis Viersen
German
Kreis Oberbergischer Kreis (partial)
surface form: Oberbergischer Kreis
German
Ayuntamiento de Tuxpan, Nayarit Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Færder municipality Norwegian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hvaler municipality Norwegian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Kirkøy Norwegian Bokmål via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
2. Liga (Austria) German
Stadtrat Leer German via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Baruipur Bengali NERFINISHED
Bureau of the Public Debt English