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
Karimganj district Bengali
Lund Municipal Council Swedish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tartu Parish Estonian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kastre Parish Estonian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Valga Estonian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Calanda Spanish
La Bisbal d’Empordà Catalan via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
La Bisbal d’Empordà Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Regio III Isis et Serapis Latin via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Peja Municipality Albanian
Peja Municipality Serbian
Centre-Nord Region French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Boucle du Mouhoun Region French
Wolesi Jirga Pashto NERFINISHED
Wolesi Jirga Dari NERFINISHED
Mehdishahr Persian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Konongo people Swahili via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage"
Konongo people English via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Sonnenbühl German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Schwarzach
surface form: Schwarzach (Vorarlberg)
German
Yingcheng City Standard Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Byng, Ontario English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Montigny-sur-Avre French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Lacroix Bay English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Lacroix Bay French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Steenstraat Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tra Vinh Vietnamese
Poschiavo Valley Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bibbiena Italian
Sarno Italian
Wyoming State Auditor’s Office English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bokkos Local Government Area English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Goemay none via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguageOf"
Ōkuma town government Japanese
Futaba Town government Japanese
Lorsch German
Mexico (indirectly via Four Corners region with New Mexico)
surface form: Mexico
Spanish
Mexico (indirectly via Four Corners region with New Mexico)
surface form: Mexico
Spanish via predicate surface "nationalLanguage"
Llançà Catalan
Llançà Spanish
La Jonquera Catalan
La Jonquera Spanish
Engelsky District Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Teesdorf German
Kidal Cercle French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
La Prairie, Quebec French
La Prairie, Quebec French via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Baltschieder German
Camarasa Catalan via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage" NERFINISHED
Camarasa Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"