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
Ripoll (municipality in Catalonia)
surface form: Ripoll
Spanish
Regierungsbezirk Oppeln German via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Flintshire County Council English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Flintshire County Council Welsh via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Peloponnese Region (administrative services) Greek via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Vytina Greek
Megalopoli Greek
Tripoli, Arcadia Greek via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Megalopoli municipality Greek
Csehimindszent (Hungarian)
surface form: Csehimindszent
Hungarian NERFINISHED
Vas County (Kingdom of Hungary) Hungarian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Vallegrande Municipality Spanish via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Vallegrande Spanish
reign of Abdallah ibn Muhammad Arabic via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Mexico City borough of Iztapalapa
surface form: Iztapalapa
Spanish
Amroha district Hindi
Hasanpur Hindi
Amroha tehsil Hindi via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage" NERFINISHED
Amroha tehsil Hindi
Dhanora tehsil Hindi
Hasanpur tehsil Hindi
Hasanpur tehsil Hindi via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Kurung Kumey district English
Kurung Kumey district Hindi
Along English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
San Esteban Spanish
Calle Larga Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Degan Subdistrict Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Huayin City Standard Chinese
Dolores Hidalgo municipality Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
District of Kitimat English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Strathroy, Ontario, Canada English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Belford Roxo Portuguese language
surface form: Portuguese
Maykopsky District Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Four Roads English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Filmfare Award for Best Director – Tamil Tamil via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Okayama Prefecture Government Japanese
HM Prison Swaleside English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Sasaima Spanish
Benin football federation
surface form: Benin Football Federation
French
South Kynouria municipality Greek via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
reign of Muhammad I of Córdoba Arabic via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Barangay Tadlac@en
surface form: Barangay Tadlac
Filipino via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Barangay Tadlac@en
surface form: Barangay Tadlac
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Holzen (Kandern) German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Riedlingen (Kandern) German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sitzenkirch German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Warthausen German
Yimen County Chinese
Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture Standard Chinese