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
Madhubani district Hindi
Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza Spanish
Astana Kazakh
Astana Russian
Eurasian Economic Union Russian language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Russian
Sarpsborg Norwegian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Skarżysko-Kamienna Polish
Moss Bokmål
Grandson French
Midland, Ontario English
Grand Duchy of Tuscany Italian
Cimetière de Levallois-Perret French via predicate surface "hasLanguageOfLocalAdministration"
Dugny French
Akrotiri and Dhekelia English
Nezahualcóyotl Spanish
Economic Community of Central African States French
Economic Community of Central African States English
Economic Community of Central African States Portuguese
Embassy of Brazil in Washington, D.C. Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Embassy of Brazil in Washington, D.C. English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Thạch Thất District Vietnamese
Nam District Korean via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Verbal Reasoning English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
RSFSR Russian
Pau French
RMI
surface form: Republic of the Marshall Islands
Marshallese
RMI
surface form: Republic of the Marshall Islands
English
Ralik Chain Marshallese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ralik Chain English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Phnom Penh Khmer
North German Confederation German
León Spanish
Zamora-Chinchipe Province Spanish
Arrondissement of Valence French via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Government of Catalonia Catalan
Government of Catalonia Spanish
Government of Catalonia Occitan
Pastaza Province Spanish
Brockville English
Chêne-Bourg French
Vientiane Lao
Constitution Square Spanish via predicate surface "officialLanguageUsed"
Portuguese Crown Portuguese
Crombach German
Ohio History Connection English
Fengxian District Mandarin Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sint Eustatius Dutch
Sint Eustatius English
Phú Xuyên District Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Colonia Buenos Aires Spanish via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfCountry"