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
Aetna English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Oldcastle English via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfRegion" NERFINISHED
Municipality of Puente Alto Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Cité Plantagenêt French
MSB French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ministry of Economy and Finance of South Korea Korean
Carmelite Monastery, Budapest Hungarian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Oborniki Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Thoothukudi City Municipal Corporation Tamil via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
autonomous community of Galicia Galician
autonomous community of Galicia Spanish
Vilagarcía de Arousa Spanish
Vilagarcía de Arousa Galician
Redondela Galician NERFINISHED
Redondela Spanish
Sanxenxo Galician NERFINISHED
Sanxenxo Spanish
A Estrada Galician
A Estrada Spanish
Lalín Galician
Lalín Spanish
Baiona Galician NERFINISHED
Baiona Spanish
Nigrán Galician NERFINISHED
Nigrán Spanish
Cambados Galician
Cambados Spanish
Eisenberg
surface form: Eisenberg (Thuringia)
German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Saale-Orla-Kreis German
Schkölen German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Shiyan municipal government Standard Chinese via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Bulle French
Tafers German
Sense (district) German
Wil, St. Gallen German NERFINISHED
Comune di Pesaro Italian
Kenneth City, Florida English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bhagalpur Municipal Corporation Hindi via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration" NERFINISHED
Bhagalpur Municipal Corporation English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Byrum Danish
Læsø Municipality Danish
Kapong Thai via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Beaucourt French
Valdoie French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Giromagny French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kama District Pashto via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Mohmand Dara District Pashto via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Mohmand Dara District Dari via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Gan County Standard Chinese
Gan County, Jiangxi Standard Chinese