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
Secretariat of the International Seabed Authority Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Damascus Governorate Arabic
Armenian Oblast Russian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Armenian Oblast Armenian via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
linked to: Armenian language
Turkmenabat Turkmen
Osceola County, Iowa English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Serebryanye Prudy Russian
Corfu (city) Greek
South Sulawesi Indonesian
BIMSTEC English
Town of Justin, Texas English
Denton County Commissioners Court English via predicate surface "languageOfOfficialBusiness"
Iowa House of Representatives English
Vologda Oblast Russian via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
linked to: Russian language
San Fernando English
ECOWAS Community Court of Justice English
ECOWAS Community Court of Justice French
ECOWAS Community Court of Justice Portuguese
Ratnagiri Marathi
Bonneuil-en-France French
Delhi Hindi
Delhi English
Flag of Wisconsin English text
Primorje-Gorski Kotar County Croatian
Šušnjevica Croatian via predicate surface "officialLanguageCountry"
Bulgarian language Bulgaria via predicate surface "officialLanguageOf"
Bulgarian language European Union via predicate surface "officialLanguageOf"
Balanga
linked to: town of Balanga
Filipino
linked to: Tagalog
Balanga
linked to: town of Balanga
English
Villa Alemana Spanish
Thai government Thai language via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
linked to: Thai
Khetrani Pakistan’s national language is Urdu, not Khetrani via predicate surface "countryOfficialLanguageContext"
linked to: Urdu language
Erivan uezd Russian via predicate surface "administrativeLanguage"
Port Moresby English
Balkanabat Turkmen
linked to: Turkmen language
Manado Indonesian
Universal Esperanto Association Esperanto
Amorgos Greek via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Highland council area English
County of Trastámara Galician-Portuguese via predicate surface "languageOfAdministration"
Girona Catalan
Girona Spanish
ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development English
ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development French
ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development Portuguese
Prince Rupert, British Columbia English via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Navalcarnero Spanish via predicate surface "hasOfficialLanguage"
Pinto Spanish
Government of the Community of Madrid Spanish language
linked to: Spanish