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
Alastaro Finnish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Karinainen Finnish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Old Rauma Finnish
Western major district of Helsinki Finnish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Western major district of Helsinki Swedish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sierra Leone Company English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Bodoland Territorial Council Assamese (state level)
Bodoland Territorial Council Bodo (regional use)
Al Marj District Arabic
Libyan municipal system Arabic via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Vaitape French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Motu Mute French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hull–Aylmer federal electoral district
surface form: Hull–Aylmer
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Hull–Aylmer federal electoral district
surface form: Hull–Aylmer
French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Cantley French
La Pêche French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Vallée-de-la-Gatineau RCM French
Pontiac RCM French
Cégep Héritage College English
Pontiac
surface form: Pontiac (regional county municipality)
French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Latin Grammy Award for Best Urban Song Spanish
Latin Grammy Award for Best Urban Song Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese
Broye-Vully French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Arrondissement of Brussels-Capital French
Arrondissement of Brussels-Capital Dutch
Arley English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Eberhardzell German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Alt-Hohenschönhausen German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
People's Committee of Thành Công Ward Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sila Region French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Kirdimi French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kirdimi Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Cherthala Malayalam
Cherthala English
Valverde de la Vera Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Premier Division South English
Gardnersville English via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfCountry" NERFINISHED
Margibi County English
Ministry of National Defense of Liberia English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Salala English via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfCountry" NERFINISHED
Totota English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Fuamah English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bong Mines English via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage"
Zwedru English via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfCountry" NERFINISHED
River Gee County English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
western Côte d'Ivoire French via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Chief Justice of Liberia English via predicate surface "nativeLanguageOfOffice"
municipality of Dinkelland
surface form: Dinkelland
Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Old Massett English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ripoll (municipality in Catalonia)
surface form: Ripoll
Catalan