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
Oudenburg Dutch NERFINISHED
Chakwal Municipal Committee Urdu via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Chakwal Municipal Committee English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Fenyi County Chinese
新余市 普通话
Minersville English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
American Indoor Football Association English
Municipality of Metlika Slovene via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Municipality of Ribnica Slovene via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Una-Sana Canton Bosnian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Una-Sana Canton Croatian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Una-Sana Canton Serbian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Rohrdorf (Messkirch)
surface form: Rohrdorf (Meßkirch)
German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Piliscsaba Hungarian
San Daniele del Friuli Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
The Bluff English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Budweis Czech via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Huron-Kinloss English via predicate surface "languageOfficial" NERFINISHED
South Bruce English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ripley English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Vereya Russian
Bogorodsk Russian
Wendat communities in Quebec French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Udomlya district
surface form: Udomlya District
Russian
Laishevo District Russian
Laishevo District Tatar NERFINISHED
2013 World Aquatics Championships English
2013 World Aquatics Championships Spanish
Eislingen/Fils German
Süßen German
Uhingen German
Bad Überkingen German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Rechberghausen German
Salach German
Wangen (Göppingen district) German
New York City community districts English via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialUse"
Bophuthatswana Tswana NERFINISHED
Bophuthatswana English
Bati Kot District Pashto via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Bati Kot District Dari via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Verneuil d’Avre et d’Iton French
Nam Tu Liem District Vietnamese
Department of Risaralda Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bazarak Dari NERFINISHED
Luapula Province English
Municipality of Pesquería Spanish
Ulanhot Standard Chinese
Horqin Right Front Banner Standard Chinese
Horqin Right Front Banner Mongolian
Horqin Right Middle Banner Standard Chinese