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
Republic of Yucatán Spanish
St. Catharines English
Ming dynasty Classical Chinese
Jiangxi Province Standard Chinese
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Standard Chinese
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Mongolian
Andhra State Telugu
Municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo Hebrew via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Liguria Italian
Bikaner Hindi
Tehran Province Persian language
surface form: Persian
Cologne German
Court of St James's English
Málaga Spanish
Southern Tagalog region Tagalog
Be Best initiative English
Saarland German
Eleuthera English
Aruba Dutch
Aruba Papiamento
Ukrainian People’s Republic Ukrainian
Fine Gael English
Fine Gael Irish
Canadian Conservative Party
surface form: Conservative Party of Canada
English
Canadian Conservative Party
surface form: Conservative Party of Canada
French
Independence Day of Ukraine Ukrainian
Government of Argentina Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialActs"
Department of External Affairs (Canada) English
Department of External Affairs (Canada) French
La Hulpe, Belgium
surface form: La Hulpe
French via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Galicia Galician
Galicia Spanish
Las Vegas, Nevada English
Spanish America Spanish
Duchy of Warsaw Polish
Chetlat Malayalam
Chetlat English
Mosquera Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Vijayawada Telugu
San Felipe de Aconcagua Province Spanish
Qing dynasty Classical Chinese
Qing dynasty Manchu
surface form: Manchu language
Bitra Malayalam
Bitra English
Cajicá Spanish
Sangli Marathi language
surface form: Marathi
Chongqing Standard Chinese
UEFA Intertoto Cup English
UEFA Intertoto Cup French
UEFA Intertoto Cup German