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
Buch am Forst German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Southern Nigeria English
Enugu English
British Council English
Southern Province, Sri Lanka Sinhala
Southern Province, Sri Lanka Tamil
Gouy, Aisne French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Annex on Chemicals English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Annex on Chemicals French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Annex on Chemicals Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Annex on Chemicals Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Annex on Chemicals Arabic via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Annex on Chemicals Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Court of Audit of Greece Greek
Antigua English
Nabatieh, Lebanon
surface form: Nabatieh
Arabic
Pskov Oblast Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Courtrai Dutch via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Chioggia, Veneto, Italy
surface form: Chioggia
Italian
Shire of Augusta-Margaret River English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Japan Basketball Association Japanese
Râmnicu Vâlcea Romanian
Castries English
Longines Global Champions Tour English
Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria English
West Bay English
Castel Gandolfo, Italy
surface form: Castel Gandolfo
Italian
Dinka language some states of South Sudan via predicate surface "isOfficialLanguageOf"
Province of Utrecht Dutch
Ondo State English
Province 5 Nepali
Zhytomyr Ukrainian
Silao, Guanajuato, Mexico Spanish
federal government of the United Arab Emirates
surface form: Federal Government of the United Arab Emirates
Arabic
Colony of Maryland English
Yokohama DeNA BayStars Japanese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Colony of Pennsylvania English
Angaur Palauan
Angaur English
Angaur Japanese
Faizabad Hindi
Lagos State English
Les Trois-Îlets, Martinique
surface form: Les Trois-Îlets
French
Besançon French
Ekiti State English
Prince-Bishopric of Hildesheim Latin
Prince-Bishopric of Hildesheim German
Kingdom of Poland (1917–1918) Polish
Colima Spanish
Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Chinese