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
Jocotepec Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Atlantique Department French
Yanfeng District Standard Chinese
Yanfeng District Mandarin Chinese NERFINISHED
Seine-Maritime's 7th constituency French via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialActs"
Texas Department of Agriculture English
Kiev Voivodeship Polish via predicate surface "hadOfficialLanguage"
Kiev Voivodeship Latin via predicate surface "hadOfficialLanguage"
Karviná District Czech via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Dhemaji Assamese NERFINISHED
Lienchiang County Government Mandarin Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Western Pwo none via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguageOf"
Thaton Township Burmese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Thaton Township Burmese via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Loikaw Burmese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Zhangdian District Standard Chinese
Gaoqing County Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Bone Bolango Regency Indonesian
Schoorl Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Bocholt Dutch
Bocholt Flemish Dutch
Tazumuddin Upazila Bengali via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Nazımiye Turkish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gladsaxe Danish
Faßberg German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mostaganem Arabic
Mostaganem Tamazight NERFINISHED
Cúcuta Spanish
Todenfeld German NERFINISHED
Xcalakoop San Nicolás Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Casteren Dutch
Oberscheld German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Schijndel Dutch
Shungnak, Alaska English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Daecheong-dong Korean via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Fangzi District Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Jung-gu
surface form: Jung-gu, Busan
Korean via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Aubervilliers French
Hanting District Standard Chinese
San Bartolomé de Tirajana Spanish via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Wang Chao District Thai via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Narusawa Japanese
Simbirsk Governorate Russian via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Hurlock, Maryland English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mińsk County Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Yamanakako Japanese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Zeist Dutch NERFINISHED
Clinton County, Ohio English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Champéry French
Saint Croix Island
surface form: Saint Croix
English