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
Iriba French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Iriba Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Iriba French via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage"
Iriba Arabic via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage"
Maine-Soroa French NERFINISHED
Kalinago Territory, Dominica English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Municipality of Elche Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Municipality of Elche Valencian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration" NERFINISHED
Sindic de Greuges (Ombudsman of the Valencian Community)
surface form: Sindic de Greuges de la Comunitat Valenciana
Valencian NERFINISHED
Sindic de Greuges (Ombudsman of the Valencian Community)
surface form: Sindic de Greuges de la Comunitat Valenciana
Spanish
Consell Valencià de Cultura Valencian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Consell Valencià de Cultura Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ermelo, Netherlands
surface form: Ermelo
Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Straußfurt German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Vaavu Atoll Dhivehi NERFINISHED
Cariboo Regional District English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Helmbrechts subcamp German via predicate surface "hasLanguageOfAdministration"
Menzingen German
Kiboga District English
Wusheng County Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Erolzheim German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Telenești District Romanian NERFINISHED
Bavaria and Carinthia
surface form: Bavaria
German
Bavaria and Carinthia
surface form: Carinthia
German
Saint-Basile French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Saint-Basile English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Saint-Joseph-de-Madawaska French
Kurunegala District Sinhala via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Kurunegala District Tamil via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Hausjärvi Finnish
Boffalora d’Adda Italian
Kalpetta Malayalam
Kalpetta English
City of Berlin German
Oberreifenberg German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Treisberg German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Neuhof German
Piazza Santo Spirito Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sri Lanka Police Sinhala NERFINISHED
Sri Lanka Police Tamil NERFINISHED
Sri Lanka Police English
Attorney General's Department of Sri Lanka Sinhala NERFINISHED
Attorney General's Department of Sri Lanka Tamil NERFINISHED
Attorney General's Department of Sri Lanka English
Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka Sinhala via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka Tamil via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Prefeitura Municipal de São José dos Campos Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese
São José dos Campos Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese
Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Onondaga, Ontario English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"