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
Admaston/Bromley English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hoevelaken Dutch
Cinco Villas region Spanish
Comune di Grosseto Italian
Kadapa Telugu via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
YSR Kadapa district Telugu NERFINISHED
MidCoast Council area
surface form: MidCoast Council
English
Trino Italian
Memorial Cemetery of St. John’s Church, Laurel Hollow, New York English via predicate surface "languageOfLocalAdministration"
Vlada Crne Gore crnogorski jezik
Vlada Crne Gore Montenegrin language NERFINISHED
Ministry of Culture of Montenegro Montenegrin via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfJurisdiction"
Golubovci Montenegrin via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Seal of the State of New Hampshire English
Port Authority of Timor-Leste Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Port Authority of Timor-Leste Tetum via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor English
United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese
United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor Tetum NERFINISHED
Liquiçá municipality Tetum via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Liquiçá municipality Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Aileu municipality Tetum NERFINISHED
Aileu municipality Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese
Cristo Rei administrative post Tetum via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Cristo Rei administrative post Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Dom Aleixo administrative post Tetum via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Dom Aleixo administrative post Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Vera Cruz administrative post Tetum NERFINISHED
Vera Cruz administrative post Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese
Metinaro administrative post Tetum NERFINISHED
Metinaro administrative post Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese
Dili Municipality Tetum NERFINISHED
Dili Municipality Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese
Dili district Tetum NERFINISHED
Dili district Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese
Saccolongo Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Farum, Denmark Danish
Sovet-Kvadzhe Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tadoussac French via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
El Bouni District Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
El Tarf Province Arabic
El Tarf Province Tamazight via predicate surface "nationalLanguage" NERFINISHED
Badami taluk Kannada NERFINISHED
Bilagi taluk Kannada via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Hunagund taluk Kannada via predicate surface "languageOfficial" NERFINISHED
Jamkhandi taluk Kannada NERFINISHED
Rabakavi Banahatti taluk Kannada NERFINISHED
Makuti English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Waldbröl, Germany
surface form: Waldbröl
German
Dornstadt German