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
Kasara Marathi via predicate surface "languageOfficial" NERFINISHED
Parchal e Ferragudo Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Richland–Lexington Airport District English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Borgå Finnish
Borgå Swedish
Nylands landskap Finnish via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Nylands landskap Swedish via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Nylands län Swedish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Nylands län Finnish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kabye Togo via predicate surface "isOfficialLanguageOf" NERFINISHED
Pretos Forros Portuguese via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage"
Bremthal German
Ehlhalten German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Steinbach (Taunus) German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Würges German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Oberems German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Waldems German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hunoldstal German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Niederreifenberg German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hohenstein (Hesse) German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Orlen German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ayuntamiento de Cuacos de Yuste Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Garganta la Olla Spanish
Losar de la Vera Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Tejeda de Tiétar Spanish
Guijo de Santa Bárbara Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
FAST English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
City of Fairfield English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Bernried am Starnberger See German
Pomorie Bulgarian NERFINISHED
Tsarevo Bulgarian
Aytos Bulgarian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Karnobat Bulgarian NERFINISHED
Sredets Bulgarian NERFINISHED
Malko Tarnovo Bulgarian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kameno Bulgarian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Ruen Bulgarian NERFINISHED
Sungurlare Bulgarian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sozopol Municipality Bulgarian via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Aytos Municipality Bulgarian
Aytos Municipality Bulgarian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Karnobat Municipality Bulgarian
Sungurlare Municipality Bulgarian
Pomorie area Bulgarian via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Municipality of Burgas Bulgarian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Liễu Giai Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Biltine French
Biltine Arabic
Ouaddaï Region French
Ouaddaï Region Arabic