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
Comarca de Málaga Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
La Javie French
Le Brusquet French
Aiglun (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Etne Norwegian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Rogaland county municipalities Norwegian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Guiyang Municipal Government Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Prescott
surface form: Prescott, Ontario
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Skjern Danish
Sattahip District Thai
Uttar Dinajpur district Bengali via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Uttar Dinajpur district English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Phatthalung Thai
Krishnapatnam Telugu NERFINISHED
Pułtusk County Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Daiyue District Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Val-de-Reuil French via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
González Municipality Spanish
Lødingen Municipality Norwegian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ennetbürgen German
Bhimber District Urdu NERFINISHED
Kahuta Tehsil Urdu via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Prince-Bishop of Lübeck Latin via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Prince-Bishop of Lübeck German via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
La Gabelle Generating Station French via predicate surface "hasLanguageOfLocalAdministration"
Solano Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Gaggiano Italian
La Selva Catalan
La Selva Spanish
Pla de l'Estany Catalan
Pla de l'Estany Spanish
Castelló d'Empúries Catalan
Castelló d'Empúries Spanish
Pals Catalan
Pals Spanish
Peralada Catalan
Peralada Spanish
Alxa Left Banner Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Municipality of Trebnje Slovene
Hetmanate of Pavlo Skoropadsky Ukrainian
Barguna District Bengali NERFINISHED
Comune of Chiusi della Verna
surface form: Chiusi della Verna
Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Elitserien Swedish
Maisons-Laffitte, Yvelines, France
surface form: Maisons-Laffitte
French
Comarnic Romanian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Vălenii de Munte Romanian
Plopeni Romanian NERFINISHED
Compton, Quebec, Canada
surface form: Compton, Quebec
French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Donskoy District, Moscow Russian
Palestina, Caldas urban area Spanish