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
Gomba District English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Rakai District English
Kiboga English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kiboga
surface form: Kiboga District
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
MSB Turkish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Somali Federal Member States Somali via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Somali Federal Member States Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine Ukrainian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Korpo Finnish
Korpo Swedish
Houtskär Swedish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Houtskär Finnish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Iniö Swedish
Iniö Finnish NERFINISHED
Parainen municipality Finnish
Parainen municipality Swedish
Nauvo municipality Swedish
Nauvo municipality Finnish
Korpo municipality Swedish
Korpo municipality Finnish
Houtskär municipality Swedish
Coat of arms of Laitila Finnish via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialUse"
Eurajoki Finnish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Eteläinen suurpiiri Finnish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Eteläinen suurpiiri Swedish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Jalaluddin Ahsan Khan Persian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Government of Meghalaya English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration" NERFINISHED
Erebuni District of Yerevan Armenian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Erechim, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
surface form: Erechim
Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Executive Tower Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguageOfCountry"
CODICEN Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ley General de Educación de Uruguay español via predicate surface "idiomaOficialDelTexto"
Supreme Court of Uruguay Spanish
Schemmerhofen German
Rot an der Rot German
Mittelbiberach German
Schwendi German
Berkheim German
Dettingen an der Iller German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ingoldingen German NERFINISHED
Senden German
Staig German
Chambly, Quebec French
Bourkika Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bourkika Tamazight via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Berlin government district German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Rohtak Hindi
Palazzo del Viminale Italian via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialUse"
Porto Sant’Elpidio Italian
Canada Infrastructure Bank English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"