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
Velké Meziříčí Czech NERFINISHED
Villers-la-Ville French
Babol County Persian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Municipality of Allende, Nuevo León Spanish
Kythira municipality Greek via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Riyadh Al Khabra Arabic
Ponteceso Galician NERFINISHED
Ponteceso Spanish
Southern Maharashtra Marathi via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage" NERFINISHED
Alcantara
surface form: Alcantara, Romblon
Filipino via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Alcantara
surface form: Alcantara, Romblon
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Puerto Asís Spanish
Valle del Guamuez Spanish
Colón Spanish
San Francisco
surface form: San Francisco, Putumayo
Spanish
Leguízamo Spanish
Tübingen (district) German
Mengen German
Bach German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Plaisance-du-Touch French
town hall of Munderkingen German via predicate surface "hasLanguageOfAdministration"
Juan Gopar Spanish
Merate Italian
Yushui District Standard Chinese
Government of the Province of Chaco Spanish
Laxe Galician via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Laxe Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Borgo Valsugana Italian
Ejutla de Crespo Municipality Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Salayea English via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfCountry" NERFINISHED
Kankan Region (Guinea)
surface form: Kankan Region
French
Official Language Act No. 33 of 1956 Sinhala via predicate surface "officialLanguageDeclared" NERFINISHED
Domjur Community Development Block Bengali via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Domjur Community Development Block English via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Bargachia Bengali NERFINISHED
Amta Bengali NERFINISHED
Municipality of Pécs Hungarian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
secessionist State of Katanga
surface form: Secessionist State of Katanga
French
Illapel, Chile
surface form: Illapel
Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Lá Cuimhneacháin Náisiúnta an Ghorta Mhóir Irish via predicate surface "officialLanguageForm"
Schneppenhausen German NERFINISHED
Reinsberg German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Jiaoling County Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Vilalba Galician NERFINISHED
Vilalba Spanish
Govindpuri Hindi
Vaucresson, France
surface form: Vaucresson
French
Mocoa Spanish
Puerto Guzmán Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Viljandi County Estonian