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
People's Government of Hinggan League Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
People's Government of Hinggan League Standard Mandarin via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Lierna Italian
Sarnen German NERFINISHED
Kerns German
coat of arms of Obwalden German via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialUse"
Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series English
Delfgauw Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Chakesar Tehsil Urdu via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Oldisleben German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bad Tennstedt German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tianhe District Government Chinese via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
commune of Andilly (Val-d'Oise)
surface form: Andilly (Val-d'Oise)
French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Eshtehard Persian NERFINISHED
Fardis Persian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Baharampur subdivision Bengali
Baharampur subdivision English
San Vicente del Caguán Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
San José del Fragua Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Little Creek English via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage"
Arran–Elderslie English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Yegoryevsk Russian
Ciskei Xhosa NERFINISHED
Ciskei English
Municipality of General Zuazua Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Zhalaite Banner Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Pijnacker Dutch
Imam Hossein Square Persian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguageEnvironment"
Eslamshahr Persian NERFINISHED
Vyazemsky Uyezd Russian language via predicate surface "usedAdministrativeLanguage"
Municipality of Črnomelj Slovene via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Braunshardt German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Riedbahn German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kanthi Bengali NERFINISHED
Kanthi English
Frankenberg/Sa. German
Hartha German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Sayda German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Königsfeld German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Erlau German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Striegistal German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Neuhausen/Erzgeb. German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bobritzsch-Hilbersdorf German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Rossau German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Zschaitz-Ottewig German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mochau German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Rossau (Mittelsachsen) German
Erlau (Saxony) German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Etobicoke York Community Council area English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Yorkdale area English