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
Puerto Velasco Ibarra Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Węgrów County Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Urcuquí Canton Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Fasano Italian NERFINISHED
Gò Dầu District Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Town of Mount Hope, New York English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ministry of Industry and Mineral Resources of Saudi Arabia Arabic
Ministry of Energy of Saudi Arabia Arabic via predicate surface "officialLanguageUsed"
DGDA Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
الخبر اللغة العربية
الجبيل اللغة العربية
رأس تنورة اللغة العربية
حفر الباطن اللغة العربية NERFINISHED
النعيرية اللغة العربية
الخفجي اللغة العربية
العيون اللغة العربية
Farnham, Quebec French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
茅箭区 普通话
Ulvila Finnish via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Nakkila Finnish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Pomarkku Finnish NERFINISHED
Jämijärvi Finnish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Karvia Finnish
Luvia Finnish via predicate surface "languageOfficial" NERFINISHED
Noormarkku Finnish via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Kiukainen Finnish via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Weissenbach an der Triesting German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
County of Ventura Harbor Department English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Faraday, Ontario English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Centre Hastings, Ontario
surface form: Centre Hastings
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gmina Krościenko nad Dunajcem Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gmina Myślenice Polish
Gmina Sułkowice Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gmina Pcim Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gmina Raciechowice Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Cerrillos Spanish
El Bosque Spanish
Estación Central Spanish
Pedro Aguirre Cerda Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Amöneburg
surface form: Amöneburg (Wiesbaden)
German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Qantara Sharq Arabic
Abu Suwir Arabic via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfCountry" NERFINISHED
Cass Township, Pennsylvania English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Zalalövő Hungarian
Halmstad Municipality Swedish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Lalden German
Visperterminen German
Hyderabad district Telugu NERFINISHED
Hyderabad district Urdu NERFINISHED
Aguadilla municipality Spanish