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
Antofagasta Region Spanish
Pitcairn Islands English
Cornwall, Ontario English
Nagaland English
northern Iraq
surface form: Northern Iraq
Kurdish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sénat conservateur French
MUR Italian
ISSN International Centre English
ISSN International Centre French
Oregon State Senate English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Guinea French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Khashuri Municipality Georgian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Georgian language Georgia via predicate surface "officialLanguageOf"
FC Rotor Volgograd Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
East Cambridgeshire English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Constanța Romanian
Kingdom of Hungary Latin
Kingdom of Hungary Hungarian language
surface form: Hungarian
Seibersdorf German
Abbenes Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tasikmalaya Indonesian
Johor Malay
District of Columbia English
Royal Academy of Cambodia Khmer via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Libyan government Arabic via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Chairperson of the African Union Arabic
Chairperson of the African Union English
Chairperson of the African Union French
Chairperson of the African Union Portuguese
Chairperson of the African Union Spanish
Chairperson of the African Union Swahili language
surface form: Swahili
Chairperson of the African Union other working languages of the African Union
The Gambia English
Burlington, Ontario English via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Bruges Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tripura Bengali
Tripura Kokborok
Tripura English
Arica Spanish
District 3 Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Xiang Chinese none via predicate surface "isOfficialLanguageOf"
Communist Youth League of China Standard Chinese
People's Bank of China Chinese
Chestnut Grove plantation, New Kent County, Colony of Virginia English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
United Cities and Local Governments English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
United Cities and Local Governments French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
United Cities and Local Governments Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Distrito Federal Spanish
Hail Region Arabic