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
Indonesian archipelago Indonesian
Shaanxi Province Standard Chinese
Northern Ireland Assembly (1973) English via predicate surface "hadOfficialLanguage"
City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality English
City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality Afrikaans
City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality Northern Sotho (Sepedi)
surface form: Sepedi
City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality Setswana
City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality isiZulu
City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality Xitsonga
City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality Sesotho
City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality isiNdebele
City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality Tshivenda
City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality isiXhosa
Federation of Malaya Malay
Federation of Malaya English
Cossack Hetmanate Old Belarusian
surface form: Ruthenian
Bavarian Ministry of Justice German
Government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires Spanish
ICCROM English
ICCROM French
President of the World Meteorological Organization English
President of the World Meteorological Organization French
President of the World Meteorological Organization Spanish
President of the World Meteorological Organization Russian
President of the World Meteorological Organization Arabic
President of the World Meteorological Organization Chinese
Boulevard Léopold III, 1110 Brussels, Belgium bilingual French–Dutch region via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguageContext"
Hellenistic period Koine Greek
Holy Epistasia Greek via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Assembleia da República Portuguese
AR Portuguese language via predicate surface "officialLanguageUsed"
surface form: Portuguese
San Diego English
Curaçao Dutch
Curaçao Papiamento
surface form: Papiamentu
Korean Empire Korean
Senegal French
Senegal Wolof via predicate surface "nationalLanguage"
Senegal Pulaar via predicate surface "nationalLanguage"
Senegal Serer via predicate surface "nationalLanguage"
Senegal Jola via predicate surface "nationalLanguage"
Senegal Mandinka via predicate surface "nationalLanguage"
Burundi Kirundi
Burundi French
Burundi English
North Bay English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
North Bay French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Oaxaca Spanish
ERM French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
ERM Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Rue de la Loi / Wetstraat, Brussels
surface form: Rue de la Loi / Wetstraat
French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"