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
Gachetá Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Christmas Island English
Annobón Spanish
Davos German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
La Paz Spanish
Jaisalmer Hindi
Pan-African Parliament Arabic
Pan-African Parliament English
Pan-African Parliament French
Pan-African Parliament Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese
Pan-African Parliament Spanish
Pan-African Parliament Kiswahili
Senate of Argentina Spanish via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfProceedings"
South American Health Council Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
South American Health Council Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
South American Health Council English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Iquique Spanish
Government of Pakistan Urdu language via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
surface form: Urdu
Government of Pakistan English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Santpedor, Spain
surface form: Santpedor
Catalan
Santpedor, Spain
surface form: Santpedor
Spanish
District of Leipzig German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Guangzhou Municipal People’s Government Standard Chinese
Lecco Italian
Office of the Secretary to the Governor General English
Office of the Secretary to the Governor General French
Guntur Telugu
Guaduas Spanish
Alghero Italian language
surface form: Italian
Katavi Region Swahili language
surface form: Swahili
Katavi Region English
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Denmark Danish
New Providence English
Grand Bahama English
Tinian English
Tinian Chamorro
Tinian Carolinian
Kazan Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kazan Tatar language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Tatar
Herzogenaurach, Germany
surface form: Herzogenaurach
German
Umbria Italian
Querétaro Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
El Hierro Spanish
Avusy French
Song dynasty Classical Chinese
Tibet Autonomous Region Standard Chinese
Tibet Autonomous Region Tibetan
Abaco Islands English
Soisy-sous-Montmorency, France
surface form: Soisy-sous-Montmorency
French
State of Mexico Spanish