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
Kylmäkoski Finnish
Ninhue Spanish
Ministry of Finance of Niger French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Matamoros, Coahuila Spanish
Sainte-Marie French
Lodi Vecchio Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Zelo Buon Persico Italian
Mulazzano Italian
Tavazzano con Villavesco Italian
San Martino in Strada Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Fombio Italian NERFINISHED
Guardamiglio Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Caselle Landi Italian
Cornegliano Laudense Italian
Meleti Italian
Maccastorna Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Alvor parish Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mananthavady Malayalam via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mananthavady English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Vaikom Malayalam via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Vaikom English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Nedumbassery Malayalam NERFINISHED
Nedumbassery English
Kerala Tourism Department Malayalam NERFINISHED
Kerala Tourism Department English
Bachern German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Inning
surface form: Inning am Ammersee
German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Beffendorf German NERFINISHED
Esbo stift Swedish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Esbo stift Finnish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hollola Finnish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Orimattila Finnish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Luoto Finnish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Luoto Swedish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Gardabani Municipality Georgian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Provadia Bulgarian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Valchi Dol Bulgarian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Moldavian ASSR Romanian
Moldavian ASSR Russian
Moldavian ASSR Ukrainian
Gatineau sector French via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Gmina Jędrzejów Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Pirajá Portuguese via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfLocation" NERFINISHED
Pitiusas Spanish
Pitiusas Catalan
Illes Pitiüses Catalan via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Illes Pitiüses Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Clementswood English
Silistra Province Bulgarian
Orhei District Romanian