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
Provisional Government of the French Republic French
Port Said Arabic
Kingdom of Spain Spanish
Kingdom of Spain Spanish
surface form: Castilian Spanish
Municipality of Aljezur Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Mê Linh District Vietnamese
Mengjiang Mongolic languages
surface form: Mongolian
Mengjiang Chinese
Mengjiang Japanese
Quebec City Council French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Crown colony English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Kailua, Hawaii, United States English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Zundert, Netherlands
surface form: Zundert
Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Fribourg French
Fribourg German
Cook Islands English
Cook Islands Cook Islands Māori language
surface form: Cook Islands Māori
U.S. Military Government in Cuba Spanish
U.S. Military Government in Cuba English
Military Staff Committee Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Military Staff Committee Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Military Staff Committee English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Military Staff Committee French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Military Staff Committee Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Military Staff Committee Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia English
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia French
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia Bosnian
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia Croatian
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia Serbian
Korean South Korea via predicate surface "officialLanguageOf"
Korean North Korea via predicate surface "officialLanguageOf"
Bank Negara Malaysia Malay
Bank Negara Malaysia English
Shillong English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Shillong Khasi language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Khasi
Shillong Garo people via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Garo
Wyoming English
Powys English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Powys Welsh via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Berchtesgaden German
Giza Governorate Arabic
Haridwar Hindi
Haridwar Sanskrit
Christchurch, New Zealand English
Orthodox Presbyterian Church English
Unitarian Universalist Association English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
National Assembly
surface form: National Assembly (Hungary)
Hungarian
Council of the Nation Arabic via predicate surface "officialLanguageUsed"
Council of the Nation Tamazight via predicate surface "officialLanguageUsed"