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
Mit Abu al-Kum, Monufia Governorate, Egypt
surface form: Mit Abu al-Kum
Arabic
Herm English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Saint Helier English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Saint Helier French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Karnataka Kannada
10th of Ramadan City Arabic
Onex French
Versoix French
Perly-Certoux French
Russin French
Chancy French
Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments Latin via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments Italian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus Turkish
Nauru Nauruan
Nauru English
Sark English
Saint Peter Port English
Benin French
Benin Fon via predicate surface "nationalLanguage"
Benin Yoruba via predicate surface "nationalLanguage"
District of Galicia German via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Minnesota English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguageStatus"
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
surface form: Oklahoma City
English
Eurojust English
Eurojust French
Eurojust German
United Nations Capital Development Fund English
United Nations Capital Development Fund French
Matsu Islands Standard Chinese
surface form: Mandarin Chinese
Pristina Albanian language
surface form: Albanian
Pristina Serbian
Andhra Pradesh Telugu
Tanjore Tamil
Kalpeni Malayalam
Tolima Department Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
La Mesa Spanish
Cáqueza Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Suriname Dutch
Suriname Sranan Tongo via predicate surface "nationalLanguage"
French Fifth Republic French
Antwerp Dutch
Leeds—Grenville—Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes English and French
Tenerife Spanish
Ljubljana Slovene
Rajshahi Bengali
Tetum Timor-Leste via predicate surface "officialLanguageOf"
Mae Sot Thai
Western Zone of Tanzania Swahili language
surface form: Swahili
Western Zone of Tanzania English