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
Banská Bystrica Slovak language
surface form: Slovak
World Zionist Congress Hebrew
World Zionist Congress English
World Zionist Congress German
Capiz Filipino
Capiz English
Ministry of Education of the ROC Standard Chinese
Austrians German via predicate surface "officialLanguageOfCountry"
Egyptian administration of the Gaza Strip Arabic
Tabasco Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
SCC
surface form: Supreme Court of Canada
English
SCC
surface form: Supreme Court of Canada
French
Opera Nazionale Balilla Italian
Christian County, Kentucky English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Toa Alta Spanish
Toa Alta English
Gurabo Spanish
Gurabo English
Tver Oblast Russian
Ekurhuleni English
Ekurhuleni Zulu
Ekurhuleni Xhosa
Ekurhuleni Afrikaans
Ekurhuleni Sotho
surface form: Southern Sotho
Ekurhuleni Northern Sotho
Ekurhuleni Setswana
surface form: Tswana
Ekurhuleni Tsonga
Ekurhuleni Venda
Ekurhuleni Southern Ndebele
surface form: Ndebele
Ekurhuleni Swati
British Gold Coast English
Dwyfor Meirionnydd bilingual Welsh and English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguageStatus"
Inglewood, California, United States
surface form: Inglewood, California
English
Newtonbrook, Ontario, Canada English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Newtonbrook, Ontario, Canada French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
La Higuera Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Luxembourgers Luxembourgish via predicate surface "officialLanguageInState"
Luxembourgers French via predicate surface "officialLanguageInState"
Luxembourgers German via predicate surface "officialLanguageInState"
Provisional Government of Israel Hebrew
Provisional Government of Israel Arabic
South Caicos English
Tlalnepantla de Baz Spanish
Breckland district English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Yaroslavl Oblast Russian via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Swati Eswatini via predicate surface "officialLanguageOf"
Swati South Africa via predicate surface "officialLanguageOf"
Tontola Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bayelsa State English
Gwynedd Welsh via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"