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
Western Pacific Region Chinese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Western Pacific Region Japanese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Western Pacific Region Korean via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Western Pacific Region Malay via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Western Pacific Region Vietnamese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Western Pacific Region Khmer via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Western Pacific Region Lao via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Western Pacific Region Mongolian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Western Pacific Region Tok Pisin via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Western Pacific Region Tetum via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Ville-d'Avray, France
surface form: Ville-d'Avray
French
Kosrae State English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Kosrae State Kosraean via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Apia Samoan language
surface form: Samoan
Apia English
Zabaykalsky Krai Russian
Shimla Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Shimla English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Shimla Western Pahari via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Pahari
Gila River Indian Community English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Gila River Indian Community Akimel O’odham language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: O’odham language
Almería Spanish
Prince-Bishopric of Paderborn German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Soviet Ukraine Ukrainian
Soviet Ukraine Russian
Naga City Filipino
Naga City English
Easter Island Commune Spanish
Eastern Province, Sri Lanka Sinhala
Eastern Province, Sri Lanka Tamil
pre-war Polish State Police Polish
Mughal dynasty Persian language via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
surface form: Persian
Andaman district Hindi via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Andaman district English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Andaman district Bengali via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Andaman district Tamil via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Andaman district Telugu via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Andaman district Malayalam via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Andaman district Nicobarese via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Andaman district Urdu language via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
surface form: Urdu
North East Nigeria English
Kano State English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Dehradun Hindi
Kingdom of Serbia Serbian
Asamblea Nacional Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Antony French
Archbishop of Cologne Latin via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Archbishop of Cologne German via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Yuan dynasty Classical Chinese
Yuan dynasty Mongolian