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 Logatec
surface form: Municipality of Logatec
Slovene
municipality of Ivančna Gorica
surface form: Municipality of Ivančna Gorica
Slovene via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
municipality of Vodice Slovene
municipality of Horjul
surface form: Municipality of Horjul
Slovene
municipality of Velike Lašče
surface form: Municipality of Velike Lašče
Slovene via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
municipality of Šmartno pri Litiji
surface form: Municipality of Šmartno pri Litiji
Slovene
Kamnik Slovene
Central Sava statistical region Slovene via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Municipality of Cerklje na Gorenjskem Slovene via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Güzelyurt District Greek via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Portela Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bucchianico Italian NERFINISHED
Karimpur Bengali via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Karimpur English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Isla de la Juventud municipality Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Cluj County Romanian NERFINISHED
Girardota Spanish
Tamra Hebrew
Mi'ilya Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mi'ilya Hebrew via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kafr Yasif Hebrew
Valladolid, Spain
surface form: Valladolid
Spanish
Municipal government of Valladolid Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Guía de Isora (town) Spanish
La Guancha Spanish
El Tanque Spanish
Ayuntamiento de Tacoronte Spanish via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Taganana Spanish
Taborno Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Masca Spanish
Las Portelas Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Buenavista del Norte Spanish
Mingan Innu community French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Charioupolis Greek via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
District of Wolfenbüttel German via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Königslutter am Elm German
Ban Tak District Thai via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Shefa-'Amr Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Shefa-'Amr Hebrew via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Kingdom of Silla Old Korean NERFINISHED
New Wexford English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
New Wexford French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bordj T'har Arabic
Bordj T'har Tamazight NERFINISHED
Blora Indonesian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Santipur Bengali
Mostovsky District Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mascara Arabic
village of Slatina
surface form: Slatina
Albanian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
village of Slatina
surface form: Slatina
Serbian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED