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
Legal Committee of the General Assembly Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Legal Committee of the General Assembly Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Offley Parish Council English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Zigong Municipal People's Government Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
County of Ventura Department of Airports English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Municipality of Tepatitlán de Morelos Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Southend-on-Sea City Council English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Smyrna
surface form: Smyrna, Delaware
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Korba Municipal Corporation Hindi via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
modern town of Svishtov
surface form: Svishtov
Bulgarian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Braničevo District Serbian
Groot IJsselmonde Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kemerovsky District Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Unterberken German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Oriens prefecture Latin via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Oriens prefecture Greek via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Shippensburg Police Department English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Harari Region Harari NERFINISHED
Harari Region Amharic NERFINISHED
Harari Region Oromo NERFINISHED
Binningen German
Deerfield
surface form: Deerfield, Missouri
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources English
Milford
surface form: Milford, New York
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Edmeston
surface form: Edmeston, New York
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Plainfield
surface form: Plainfield, New York
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Plouigneau French
Department of Paris French
Xuanwei Standard Chinese
Mangshi Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Longchuan
surface form: Longchuan County
Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Zhaotong Municipal People's Government Chinese via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialUse"
Kobar Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Lohit district English
Dominican Revolutionary Party government Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfGovernment"
Sredets Municipality Bulgarian
Xiangcheng District Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Pottenstein subcamp German via predicate surface "hasLanguageOfAdministration"
Municipality of Santiago do Cacém Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese
AIRCOM English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
AIRCOM French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bétera Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bétera Valencian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Shevchenkivskyi District, Kharkiv Ukrainian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Todee English via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfCountry" NERFINISHED
Oxfordshire Senior Cup English via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialUse"
Swindon Rural District English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Hinganghat Municipal Council Marathi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Eura Finnish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tonghai County Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED