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
Comondú Municipality Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Skopelos municipality Greek
Kalachyovsky District Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kalachyovsky District Russian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Indian Mountaineering Foundation English
Indian Mountaineering Foundation Hindi
Bregenz District German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Oberdorf
surface form: Oberdorf (Wolfurt)
German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Municipality of Chipiona Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Narasaraopet Telugu NERFINISHED
Feldbach German
Judenburg German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Quynh Mai Ward Vietnamese via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Quynh Mai Ward Vietnamese via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage"
Zarasai Lithuanian NERFINISHED
Paraguarí Department Spanish
Paraguarí Department Guaraní NERFINISHED
Shen County Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Shen County Mandarin Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Lyantonde District English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kampala District English
Kampala District Swahili NERFINISHED
Litvínov Czech
Kadaň Czech
Jirkov Czech
Aisho town government Japanese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gejiu Standard Mandarin NERFINISHED
Kaiyuan Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Pingbian Miao Autonomous County Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Shiping County Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Mile Standard Chinese
South Pacific tropical cyclone intensity scale English via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialUse"
state of San Luis Potosí
surface form: San Luis Potosí (state)
Spanish
Tittling German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Aidenbach German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tiefenbach (Passau district) German
Thyrnau German
Windorf German
Hutthurm German
Salzweg German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Malching German NERFINISHED
Kirchham (Passau district) German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Egglham German
Ruderting German
Hofkirchen (Passau district) German
Fürstenstein German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Strass im Zillertal German NERFINISHED
municipality of Chiemsee German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bavarian State Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forestry German