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
Curití Spanish
city of Facatativá
surface form: Facatativá
Spanish
Teshie Traditional Council Ga via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration" NERFINISHED
Doryumu English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ga Traditional Council Ga via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration" NERFINISHED
Ga Traditional Council English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
National House of Chiefs of Ghana English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ashante English
Tema Traditional Council Ga via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration" NERFINISHED
Tema Traditional Council English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Departmental Government of La Paz Spanish
Yellowstone National Park North Entrance English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Castel Ritaldi Italian
BJFEZ Korean via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
BJFEZ English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
state government of Querétaro Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Esia Tongan via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Esia English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tongamamaʻo Tongan via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Tongamamaʻo English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Niuas district Tongan via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Niuas district English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
La Tuque French
Balurghat Municipality Bengali via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Hsu Shui-teh as Mayor of Taipei Mandarin Chinese via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Hsu Shui-teh as Mayor of Taipei Mandarin Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Keene
surface form: Keene, Ontario
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Saint-Max, France
surface form: Saint-Max
French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Szigetszentmiklós, Hungary
surface form: Szigetszentmiklós
Hungarian
present-day Montana
surface form: Montana
English (de facto) via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguageStatus" NERFINISHED
Sauda municipality Norwegian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Val Lumnezia region Romansh via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Rabius German
Rabius Romansh NERFINISHED
Surrein Romansh via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Surrein German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Cumpadials Romansh via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Cumpadials German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Camischolas German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Camischolas Romansh via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Trun Romansh NERFINISHED
Trun German
Ladir Romansh via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Ladir German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Pitasch Romansh via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Pitasch German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Lumbrein Romansh NERFINISHED
Vella Romansh NERFINISHED
Vella German
Obersaxen German NERFINISHED