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
Aguadilla municipality English
Municipal council of Sachkhere Georgian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Los Cabos Municipality Spanish
Muar District Malay
TÜRKSOY Turkish NERFINISHED
TÜRKSOY Russian
Bagrationovsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia
surface form: Bagrationovsk
Russian via predicate surface "currentOfficialLanguage"
Icking German
Arisdorf German NERFINISHED
Kaiseraugst German
PRK
surface form: People's Republic of Kampuchea
Khmer NERFINISHED
Islaz Romanian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Parry Island English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mézidon Vallée d'Auge French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Tenkasi Tamil NERFINISHED
Ordu Province Turkish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Qianfeng District Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Bandar Seri Jempol Malay
Zapadny Krai Russian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Luxi County Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Kokrajhar Assamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kokrajhar Bodo via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Kokrajhar English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Umvoti Local Municipality English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Umvoti Local Municipality Zulu via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Cellino San Marco Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gafsa Arabic
Anakapalli Telugu NERFINISHED
Mönsterås Municipal Council Swedish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Beaconsfield, Quebec French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Beaconsfield, Quebec English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Court of Québec French
Captaincy of Paraíba Portuguese language via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Bad Schönau German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ministerio de Defensa Nacional
surface form: Ministerio de Defensa Nacional (Chile)
Spanish
People's Committee of Ngô Thì Nhậm Ward Vietnamese via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
San Miguel de Gualdape Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Čadca Slovak NERFINISHED
Siikainen Finnish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sorel French
Governor of Natal English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Richmond Local Municipality English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Richmond Local Municipality isiZulu via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ministry of Public Security of Panama Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
محافظة الخبر اللغة العربية
محافظة رأس تنورة اللغة العربية via predicate surface "اللغة_الرسمية"
محافظة الخفجي اللغة العربية
Al-Mubarraz Arabic
comarca of Montsià Catalan
comarca of Montsià Spanish