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
River Cess County English
Loguatuo English
Maillardville English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Lokachi settlement hromada Ukrainian via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Hanoi municipal authorities Vietnamese via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Academy of the Arabic Language in Tunis Arabic
municipal council of Tinajo
surface form: Municipal Council of Tinajo
Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Gachalá Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ubalá Spanish
Gama Spanish
Medina
surface form: Medina, Cundinamarca
Spanish
Val-d'Or, Quebec, Canada
surface form: Val-d'Or
French
Jagiroad Assamese NERFINISHED
Minas, Uruguay Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Lujiang Commandery Classical Chinese via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Viveiro Galician
Viveiro Spanish
Ribadeo Galician NERFINISHED
Ribadeo Spanish
Cedeira Galician via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Cedeira Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Fox-Amphoux, Var, France
surface form: Fox-Amphoux
French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ongole Telugu NERFINISHED
Municipality of Panquehue Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Rakhiv Ukrainian NERFINISHED
Lunzenau German NERFINISHED
Solukhumbu District Nepali NERFINISHED
Regional Council of Umbria Italian
Palnadu district Telugu via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Sibundoy Spanish
Villagarzón Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hajiganj Upazila Bengali
Vejle County Danish via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Montello
surface form: Montello, Wisconsin
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Karsdorf German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Reutte German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Zaachila Municipality Spanish
Santa Cruz Zenzontepec Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
French state (partially)
surface form: French state
French
Belgium (via border stations)
surface form: Belgium
Dutch NERFINISHED
Belgium (via border stations)
surface form: Belgium
French
Belgium (via border stations)
surface form: Belgium
German
Paris (department) French
Roman province of Isauria Latin via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Roman province of Isauria Greek via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Leo the Thracian Greek via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Leo the Thracian Latin via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Keynsham Town Council English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
City of Pula local government Croatian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Evangelical Supreme Church Council German via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"