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
Panaji Konkani
Panaji Marathi
linked to: Marathi language
Panaji English
Baja California Sur Spanish
Ciudad Juárez Spanish
Duchy of Nassau German
Kowloon Chinese
Kowloon English
Cordillera Administrative Region Filipino
Cordillera Administrative Region English
House of Assembly of South Australia English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil Portuguese
Latakia Arabic
Slovak language Slovakia via predicate surface "officialLanguageOf"
Gori
linked to: city of Gori
Georgian via predicate surface "languageOfficial"
Ogun State English
Arkhangelsk Oblast Russian
ALBA Spanish
ALBA English
ALBA French
ALBA Portuguese
Tahlequah English
Tahlequah Cherokee language
President of the International Criminal Court English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
President of the International Criminal Court French via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Vicenza Italian
Saint Barthélemy French
Rhône French
Peleliu Palauan via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Peleliu English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Osun State English
Lichfield City Council English via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Qalyubia Governorate Arabic
Gomel Belarusian
Gomel Russian
Generalitat of Valencia Valencian
linked to: Catalan
Generalitat of Valencia Spanish
Kingdom of the Netherlands Dutch
Kingdom of the Netherlands Papiamento
Kingdom of the Netherlands English
Khartoum State
linked to: Khartoum state
Arabic
West Attica regional unit Greek
Salta Province Spanish
Jaipur Hindi
Johnson County, Missouri English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Cross River State English
Piraeus regional unit Greek
Helgoland German via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Bytča Slovak
linked to: Slovak language
City of Bruges Dutch