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
Republic of Yucatán Spanish
St. Catharines English
Ming dynasty Classical Chinese
Jiangxi Province Standard Chinese
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Standard Chinese
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Mongolian
Andhra State Telugu
Municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo Hebrew via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Liguria Italian
Bikaner Hindi
Tehran Province Persian
linked to: Persian language
Cologne German
Court of St James's English
Málaga Spanish
Southern Tagalog region Tagalog
Be Best initiative English
Saarland German
Eleuthera English
Aruba Dutch
Aruba Papiamento
Ukrainian People’s Republic Ukrainian
Fine Gael English
Fine Gael Irish
Conservative Party of Canada English
Conservative Party of Canada French
Independence Day of Ukraine Ukrainian
Government of Argentina Spanish via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialActs"
Department of External Affairs (Canada) English
Department of External Affairs (Canada) French
La Hulpe
linked to: La Hulpe, Belgium
French via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Galicia Galician
Galicia Spanish
Las Vegas, Nevada English
Spanish America Spanish
Duchy of Warsaw Polish
Chetlat Malayalam
Chetlat English
Mosquera Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Vijayawada Telugu
San Felipe de Aconcagua Province Spanish
Qing dynasty Classical Chinese
Qing dynasty Manchu language
linked to: Manchu
Bitra Malayalam
Bitra English
Cajicá Spanish
Sangli Marathi
linked to: Marathi language
Chongqing Standard Chinese
UEFA Intertoto Cup English
UEFA Intertoto Cup French
UEFA Intertoto Cup German