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
Kisumu County Swahili via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Government of Quezon Province Filipino via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Government of Quezon Province English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bayanan Filipino
Bayanan English
Buli Filipino via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Buli English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Cupang Filipino via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Cupang English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gröben German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tagewerben German
Zorbau German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
districts of Saxony-Anhalt (1994–2007) German via predicate surface "hasLanguageOfAdministration"
Kangiqsualujjuaq Inuktitut via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Kangiqsualujjuaq French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kangiqsualujjuaq English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
La Vall d'Uixó Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
La Vall d'Uixó Valencian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Lakhimpur Kheri district Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Asamblea de Extremadura Spanish
Jaraíz de la Vera Spanish
Prostějov District Czech via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Ebreichsdorf German
Municipal Government of Parang Filipino via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Municipal Government of Parang English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Chantun Grischun Romansh via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Chantun Grischun German via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Chantun Grischun Italian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Flims German
Flims Romansh NERFINISHED
Domleschg German
Val Lumnezia Romansh via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Kantonsgericht Graubünden German
Kantonsgericht Graubünden Romansh
Kantonsgericht Graubünden Italian
Canton of Santa Cruz Spanish
city of Taif
surface form: Taif
Arabic
Sudanese states Arabic via predicate surface "haveOfficialLanguage"
Sudanese states English via predicate surface "haveOfficialLanguage"
Firuzkuh Persian NERFINISHED
Luliang County Standard Chinese
Sultan Negeri Kedah Darul Aman Malay
Villeneuve-sur-Fère French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
RS
surface form: Republika Srpska
Serbian
RS
surface form: Republika Srpska
Bosnian
RS
surface form: Republika Srpska
Croatian
National Assembly of Republika Srpska Serbian NERFINISHED
National Assembly of Republika Srpska Bosnian
National Assembly of Republika Srpska Croatian
Devprayag Hindi