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
Miyazu City Government Japanese
Tossa de Mar Catalan via predicate surface "languageOfficial" NERFINISHED
Tossa de Mar Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Tepic de Nervo Spanish
Miehikkälä Finnish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Furong District People’s Government Standard Chinese
Federal Administrative Court of Switzerland German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Federal Administrative Court of Switzerland French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Federal Administrative Court of Switzerland Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Shivamogga City Corporation Kannada via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Southern Highway Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
North Carolina Department of Insurance English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
North Carolina Department of Labor English
Oranjemund English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ayotlán Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Petite-Terre (Mayotte) French
Nesodden municipality Norwegian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Corseaux French
Castiglione a Casauria Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Moscufo Italian
Tinum Municipality Spanish
City of Fort Yukon government English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gwichyaa Zhee Gwich'in Tribal Government English
Havířov Czech
Ottobrunn German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Purbalingga Indonesian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Banyumas Indonesian
Oberglatt German
Jalajala Filipino via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Jalajala English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Pililla Filipino NERFINISHED
Pililla English
Teresa Filipino via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Teresa English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Church Administration of Iglesia ni Cristo Filipino via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Church Administration of Iglesia ni Cristo English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration" NERFINISHED
Chur, Grisons, Switzerland
surface form: Chur
German
Chur, Grisons, Switzerland
surface form: Chur
Romansh NERFINISHED
Chur, Grisons, Switzerland
surface form: Chur
Italian
Bex French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Coimbatore district Tamil NERFINISHED
Roman Curia dicasteries created by Pope Benedict XVI
surface form: Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization
Latin via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Roman Curia dicasteries created by Pope Benedict XVI
surface form: Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization
Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Inverness County, Nova Scotia English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Institut d'Estudis Occitans Occitan
Institut d'Estudis Occitans French
Zarechny
surface form: Zarechny (Sverdlovsk Oblast)
Russian
Ejutla Spanish
San Cristóbal de la Barranca Spanish
Pilibanga Hindi