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
Basque Basque Country via predicate surface "isOfficialLanguageOf"
surface form: Basque Autonomous Community
Basque Navarre (parts) via predicate surface "isOfficialLanguageOf"
Plaza de la Constitución Spanish
Bamar Burmese as official language of Myanmar via predicate surface "nationalLanguageAssociation"
Yangon Burmese
State Law and Order Restoration Council Burmese
Government of Panama Spanish
Suizhou Standard Chinese
Flemish Parliament Dutch
Municipality of Alcoutim Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Extremadura Spanish
Perlis Malay
Colorado English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Burkina Faso French
Burkina Faso Mooré via predicate surface "nationalLanguage"
Burkina Faso Dioula via predicate surface "nationalLanguage"
Ajax, Ontario English
South Sudan English
Supreme Court of Poland Polish
Fishguard English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Fishguard Welsh via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Le Cateau-Cambrésis French
Yao City government Japanese
Armed Forces of Colombia Spanish
Northern Borders Region Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Caliphate of Córdoba Arabic
Games of the X Olympiad English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Games of the X Olympiad French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kosovo Albanian language
surface form: Albanian
Kosovo Serbian
Côte d'Ivoire French
Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach German
Foras na Gaeilge Irish
Gaeltacht regions of Ireland Irish language
Tartu Estonian
DIA
surface form: Defense Intelligence Agency
English
Pays de la Loire French
Safavid Empire Persian
Rossiya Airlines Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Government of Quebec French
East African Legislative Assembly English
East African Legislative Assembly Kiswahili
Minsk Belarusian
Minsk Russian
Information Commissioner’s Office English
First Minister of Northern Ireland English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
First Minister of Northern Ireland Irish (used in some official contexts) via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
First Minister of Northern Ireland Tha Boord o Ulstèr-Scotch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Ulster Scots (used in some official contexts)
Btourram Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ceredigion Welsh