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
Camariñas Spanish
Malpica de Bergantiños Galician
Malpica de Bergantiños Spanish
Corcubión Galician NERFINISHED
Corcubión Spanish
Carnota Galician NERFINISHED
Carnota Spanish
Cee Galician via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Cee Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Vimianzo Galician NERFINISHED
Vimianzo Spanish
Zas Galician via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Zas Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Cabana de Bergantiños Galician
Cabana de Bergantiños Spanish
Carballo Galician NERFINISHED
Carballo Spanish
Laracha Galician via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Laracha Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Zhenning County, Guizhou, China
surface form: Zhenning County
Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Berazategui Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Cabinet Zijlstra Dutch via predicate surface "languageOfGovernment"
Cabinet Marijnen Dutch via predicate surface "languageOfGovernment"
Cabinet Cals Dutch via predicate surface "languageOfGovernment"
Goënga, Friesland, Netherlands
surface form: Goënga
Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Sustainable Development Goal 6 English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Nossegem Dutch
Sint-Stevens-Woluwe Dutch
Misenum naval base Latin via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialUse"
Roman Germania Latin via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration" NERFINISHED
Government of the Province of Tucumán Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Supercopa Argentina Spanish
Mizil Romanian NERFINISHED
Ploești Romanian
Århus County Danish
Río Negro Department Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
North Sheen Cemetery English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Lumban Filipino NERFINISHED
Lumban English
Balabac Filipino NERFINISHED
Balabac English
Arrondissement of Dinant French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Munger district Hindi
Munger district Urdu NERFINISHED