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
Colonia San Simón Tolnáhuac Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Salamanca Spanish
Brookeborough, County Fermanagh, Ireland English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Nanded Marathi language
surface form: Marathi
Apulia Italian language
surface form: Italian
Kabul Persian language
surface form: Dari Persian
Kabul Pashto language
surface form: Pashto
Cairo Governorate Arabic
Nariño Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Zaragoza Spanish
Malacca Malay
Mumbai Suburban district Marathi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Florida Department of Management Services English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Penang Malay
Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai Marathi
Riobamba Spanish
Puducherry Tamil
Puducherry French
Puducherry English
Colonia Atlampa Spanish
Rakowicki Cemetery Polish
Dera Ismail Khan Urdu language
surface form: Urdu
KPK
surface form: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Urdu language
surface form: Urdu
KP
surface form: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Urdu language
surface form: Urdu
Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Urdu language
surface form: Urdu
The Episcopal Church Center English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Vilna Governorate Russian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Tokelau Tokelauan
Tokelau English
Government of El Salvador Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Province of Como Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Georgina, Ontario English
Kingdom of Italy
surface form: Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic)
Italian
Kingdom of Italy
surface form: Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic)
French
Bureau International des Expositions French
Bureau International des Expositions English
Bureau International des Expositions Spanish
Bureau International des Expositions Russian
Bureau International des Expositions Arabic
Bureau International des Expositions Chinese
Trivella Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Khimki Russian
Birkirkara Maltese
Birkirkara English
Hank Aaron Award English
La Brède, near Bordeaux, France
surface form: La Brède
French
Horizontina, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
surface form: Horizontina
Portuguese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Negros Occidental Hiligaynon language
surface form: Hiligaynon
Company rule in India English
Company rule in India Persian (early period)