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
Canada Infrastructure Bank French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gorbea Natural Park Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gorbea Natural Park Basque via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Juntas Generales de Álava Spanish
Juntas Generales de Álava Basque
Araba Basque NERFINISHED
Araba Spanish
Llodio Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Llodio Basque via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Amurrio Basque NERFINISHED
Amurrio Spanish
Salvatierra-Agurain Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Salvatierra-Agurain Basque via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Oyón-Oion Spanish
Oyón-Oion Basque NERFINISHED
Místek Czech via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hidkal village Kannada NERFINISHED
Xigang District Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Jaggayyapeta Telugu NERFINISHED
Laguna's 4th congressional district Filipino via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialActs"
Laguna's 4th congressional district English via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialActs"
Rapperswil (BE) German
Koléa Arabic
Schinkelplatz German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Butambala District English
Bukomansimbi District English
Bukomansimbi English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Buikwe
surface form: Buikwe District
English
Dankaur Hindi
Bristol English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kirchdorf an der Iller German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Nippani Kannada via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Ramdurg Kannada via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus Belarusian
National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus Russian
Brooklyn Community District 15 English
Sahagún Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Tierralta Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Planeta Rica Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Tutong District Malay via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Al-Ghazalah Arabic
Al-Hait Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Smyrna (as legate or curator) Greek via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Smyrna (as legate or curator) Latin via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Samnium (late Roman period) Latin via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
野洲市 Japanese
DJB Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
DJB English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
surface form: Glasgow
English
Gmünd, Austria German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED