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
Haimchar Upazila Bengali via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Matlab Uttar Upazila Bengali via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Nyambo Swahili via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Nyambo English via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
San Pedro de las Colonias Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Jayawijaya Regency Indonesian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Obock French NERFINISHED
Obock Arabic
Sason Turkish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sason District Turkish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Qabalan Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Burin Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Madama Arabic
Awarta Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Salim Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Yatma Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Majdal Bani Fadil Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Zeita Jamma'in Arabic
People's Committee of Mỹ Đức District Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hòa Bình City Vietnamese
Sơn La Province Vietnamese
Đà Bắc District Vietnamese
Chúc Sơn Vietnamese
People's Committee of Chương Mỹ District Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tibetan areas in Yunnan Standard Chinese
Nevada Department of Education English
Weiz German
Yafia Hebrew via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Reineh Hebrew
Villeneuve-de-Mézin French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Cachipay Spanish
El Colegio Spanish
Quipile Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tena Spanish
Viotá Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Anolaima Spanish
Hol Norwegian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Rashidun administration of Egypt Arabic
Belmont County Court of Common Pleas English
Brakel German
Sorkheh Persian
central Tehran
surface form: Central Tehran
Persian NERFINISHED
Zwijndrecht, Belgium Dutch
Comune di Orvieto Italian
Jhelum city
surface form: Jhelum
Urdu NERFINISHED
Muzaffarabad District Urdu NERFINISHED
Yichang counties Mandarin Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Yichang Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Yichang Commerce Bureau Chinese
Yichang Culture and Tourism Bureau Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"