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
Jharkhand Hindi
South Sinai Governorate Arabic
Santiago del Estero Province Spanish
La Paz Department Spanish
Bodden Town English
NHL Awards English
SYR Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Second Bulgarian Empire Middle Bulgarian
Second Bulgarian Empire Church Slavonic
surface form: Old Bulgarian
British–Irish Council English
Government of Punjab Punjabi language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Punjabi
Ulyanovsk Oblast Russian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Kuching Malay via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Abia State English
Córdoba Province Spanish
Santa Fe, Argentina Spanish
Gombe English
Samara Oblast Russian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Kota Kinabalu Malay
Val d’Aran Aranese
Val d’Aran Catalan
Val d’Aran Spanish
Abkhazia Abkhaz language
surface form: Abkhaz
Abkhazia Russian
Ethiopian Empire Amharic
Central Federal District Russian
Hungarian government Hungarian language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Hungarian
Sovereign Prince of the United Netherlands Dutch via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
General Court all official languages of the European Union
Jarnac French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Sharm El Sheikh Arabic
La Rioja Province Spanish
Recopa Sudamericana Spanish
Recopa Sudamericana Portuguese
World Baseball Softball Confederation English
Texas (to the south and southeast via the Red River region)
surface form: Texas
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
village of Ligerz
surface form: Ligerz
German
Samastipur district Hindi
Aktobe Kazakh language
surface form: Kazakh
Aktobe Russian
Fredrikstad Norwegian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Roosevelt County English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gran Colombia Spanish
Inter-Parliamentary Union English
Inter-Parliamentary Union French
Inter-Parliamentary Union Spanish
Inter-Parliamentary Union Arabic
Inter-Parliamentary Union Chinese
Inter-Parliamentary Union Russian
Vanadzor Armenian language via predicate surface "nationalLanguage"
surface form: Armenian