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
Manawatū-Whanganui Region English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Manawatū-Whanganui Region Māori via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Women's Professional Soccer English
Nizhny Novgorod Oblast Russian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha English
Texas's 31st congressional district English via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialBusiness"
Lower Canada English
Lower Canada French
Bryce Canyon National Park English
Johor Bahru Malay
Federal Capital Territory English
Sokoto Caliphate Arabic
Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
state of São Paulo
surface form: State of São Paulo
Portuguese
Waikato Region English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Waikato Region Māori via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Santa Fe County English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Edo State English
Yenagoa English
Municipality of Mexicali Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
SA
surface form: South Australia
English
North Sinai Governorate Arabic
Chuvash Republic Russian language
surface form: Russian
Chuvash Republic Chuvash
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians English
Municipality of Amsterdam Dutch via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Anguilla English
Bayonne, France French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Cochin Malayalam
Cochin English
Province of Liège French
Naucalpan de Juárez Spanish
Tatarstan Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tatarstan Tatar language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Tatar
Udaipur Hindi
Lombardy–Venetia German
Lombardy–Venetia Italian
Imo State English
Black Sea Economic Cooperation English
Black Sea Economic Cooperation Russian
BG Bulgarian
Free Imperial City of the Holy Roman Empire Latin via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Free Imperial City of the Holy Roman Empire German via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Saint-Nazaire French
Bihar Hindi
French Empire French
People's Assembly of Syria Arabic
Zamość Polish
Puno Region Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Wartheland German via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"