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
Ajuntament d’Amposta Catalan via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Ajuntament d’Amposta Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Ayuntamiento de Miranda de Ebro Spanish via predicate surface "usesOfficialLanguage"
Alfred Duma Local Municipality English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Alfred Duma Local Municipality Zulu via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Charlestown English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Charlestown Zulu via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Smitville English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Smitville Zulu via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Kwahlabisa, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Zulu NERFINISHED
Kwahlabisa, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa English
BGBl.
surface form: Bundesgesetzblatt
German
Horn-Bad Meinberg German
Schlangen German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
First Schröder cabinet German via predicate surface "languageOfGovernment"
Yangon City Development Committee Burmese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
People's Assembly Burmese
Ne Win government Burmese
U Nu government Burmese
Fukuyama city government Japanese
Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association Chinese
Luwan District People’s Government Chinese via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Fontenay-le-Marmion French
Lüchun County Standard Chinese
Immenstadt im Allgäu German
Zollikon German
Tirunelveli district Tamil via predicate surface "languageOfficial" NERFINISHED
Candiac, Quebec French
Saudi government agencies Arabic via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
محافظة العديد اللغة العربية NERFINISHED
Salamanca (province) Spanish
Siniloan, Laguna Filipino via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Siniloan, Laguna English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Yarkovsky District Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ivanovo Russian
Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
village council of Bay View English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Metrobús Etiopía / Plaza de la Transparencia station Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Deportivo 18 de Marzo station complex Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguageContext"
Uclés Spanish
Mahina French
People's Committee of Quỳnh Lôi Ward Vietnamese via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Pathanamthitta district Malayalam via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
South-Eastern Administrative Okrug Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
People's Government of Hongkou District Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Berg German
Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Münsing German via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Sankt Heinrich German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Korosten Ukrainian
Rivadavia Department in Mendoza Province
surface form: Rivadavia Department (Mendoza)
Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"