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
Karen State Burmese
Alexandropol uezd Russian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
West Sulawesi Indonesian
Province of Bataan Filipino
Province of Bataan English
town of Bagac
surface form: Bagac
Tagalog
surface form: Filipino
town of Bagac
surface form: Bagac
English
Pont de Saint-Nazaire French
Lleida Catalan
Lleida Spanish
Superior Court of California, County of Contra Costa English
Castile and León Spanish
Bailiff of Jersey English via predicate surface "officialLanguageUsed"
Bailiff of Jersey French via predicate surface "officialLanguageUsed"
Bailiff of Jersey Jèrriais via predicate surface "officialLanguageUsed"
Government of Turkey Turkish via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Blindheim German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Cagliari Italian
Wilmington English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Tarragona Catalan
Tarragona Spanish
Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Canada
surface form: Pointe-Claire
French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Canada
surface form: Pointe-Claire
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
U.S. state of New York
surface form: New York
English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura Spanish
Tampico, Mexico Spanish
Bonneville French
Al Rayyan Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Novgorod Oblast Russian
Teylingen Dutch
Montreux French via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Koper Slovene
Porto Santo Island Portuguese
Sucha County Polish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
AUF
surface form: Agence universitaire de la Francophonie
French
Virginia State Police English
European Investment Fund English
European Investment Fund French
European Investment Fund German
Ross Dependency (New Zealand Antarctic territory)
surface form: Ross Dependency
English (for administration) via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Landsberg am Lech German
Schlieren German
Remoulins French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
States of Deliberation of Guernsey English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Government of Morocco Arabic
Government of Morocco Amazigh
College of Princes Latin via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialBusiness"
College of Princes German via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialBusiness"
Bhisho English via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Bhisho Afrikaans via predicate surface "languageOfficial"