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
Basra Arabic
State of Chihuahua Spanish
Mendoza Province Spanish
Collingwood, Ontario English via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Lutheran World Federation English
Lutheran World Federation German
Lutheran World Federation French
Lutheran World Federation Spanish
State of Durango Spanish
Tocaima Spanish
Oecusse Tetum via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Oecusse Portuguese language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Portuguese
Morongo Band of Mission Indians English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
State of Chiapas Spanish
Darbhanga district Hindi
Guayas Province Spanish
KAZ Kazakh language via predicate surface "relatesToOfficialLanguageOfRepresentedCountry"
surface form: Kazakh
KAZ Russian via predicate surface "relatesToOfficialLanguageOfRepresentedCountry"
Organization of Turkic States Turkish
Organization of Turkic States Azerbaijani language
surface form: Azerbaijani
Organization of Turkic States Kazakh
Organization of Turkic States Kyrgyz
Organization of Turkic States Uzbeks
surface form: Uzbek
Leelanau County English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Guerrero Spanish
Harrogate English
Mari El Republic Russian
Mari El Republic Mari
Dublin City Council English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Dublin City Council Irish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Province of Barcelona Catalan
Province of Barcelona Spanish
Gothic Quarter Catalan via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gothic Quarter Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Clergy reserves English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Irrigación (Mexico City neighborhood)
surface form: Irrigación
Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
BC
surface form: British Columbia
English
southern Mexico
surface form: Southern Mexico
Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tigray region
surface form: Tigray Region
Tigrinya
WPRO English
WPRO French
WPRO Chinese
WPRO Japanese
WPRO Korean
WPRO Malay
WPRO Vietnamese
WPRO Samoan language
surface form: Samoan
WPRO Tongan
WPRO Khmer
WPRO Lao