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
Gasera Amharic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Sinana Oromo via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Sinana Amharic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Goba woreda Afaan Oromo NERFINISHED
Goba woreda Amharic NERFINISHED
Goba woreda Amharic via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Sinana Dinsho woreda Afaan Oromo NERFINISHED
Sinana Dinsho woreda Amharic
Gasera woreda Afaan Oromo via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Gasera woreda Amharic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Delo Menna woreda Afaan Oromo via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Delo Menna woreda Amharic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Academy of the Arabic Language in Algiers Arabic via predicate surface "officialLanguageFocus"
Vitória da Conquista Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese
Nideggen German
Vussem German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Central Bank of Curaçao and Sint Maarten Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Central Bank of Curaçao and Sint Maarten English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Central Bank of Curaçao and Sint Maarten Papiamentu via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Pune division Marathi NERFINISHED
Solapur Zilla Parishad Marathi via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Barshi Marathi NERFINISHED
Mangalwedha Marathi NERFINISHED
Sangole Marathi NERFINISHED
Madawaska French in New Brunswick portion via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguageStatus"
Council of the 11th arrondissement of Paris French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Funj Sultanate Arabic
Singa city
surface form: Singa
Arabic via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfCountry" NERFINISHED
Ashtarak Municipality Armenian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sharon English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Queensville English
Brown Hill English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Holt English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Nain, Newfoundland and Labrador English
Nain, northern Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada Inuttitut NERFINISHED
Nain, northern Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada English
Provisional Government of Hawaii English
Provisional Government of Hawaii Hawaiian
Montrouge town hall French via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Halton English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Brougham English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Brougham French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Villepinte, Seine-Saint-Denis, France French
Carrières-sur-Seine French