official language

language given special status in some polity
Event designation Q23492
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official language

Summary

official language is a designation[1]. It ranks in the top 9% of designation entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (586 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • official language's image is recorded as "European Parliament" on official languages of the European Union.jpg[3].
  • official language's instance of is recorded as designation[4].
  • official language's instance of is recorded as type of language[5].
  • official language's GND ID is recorded as 4001807-6[6].
  • official language's subclass of is recorded as language[7].
  • official language's Commons category is recorded as Official languages[8].
  • official language's opposite of is recorded as vernacular[9].
  • official language's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01bff2[10].
  • official language's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Official languages[11].
  • official language's facet of is recorded as language policy[12].
  • official language's facet of is recorded as culture of violence theory[13].
  • official language's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0191205[14].
  • official language's described by source is recorded as Soziolinguistika Hiztegia[15].
  • official language's main Wikidata property is recorded as P37[16].
  • official language's different from is recorded as bureaucratic terminology[17].
  • official language's different from is recorded as bureaucratese[18].
  • official language's different from is recorded as national language[19].
  • official language's YSO ID is recorded as 1243[20].
  • official language's studied by is recorded as sociolinguistics[21].
  • official language's Quora topic ID is recorded as Official-Languages[22].
  • official language's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as official-languages[23].
  • official language's ASC Leiden Thesaurus ID is recorded as 294930094[24].
  • official language's EuroVoc ID is recorded as 5313[25].
  • official language's RIA Novosti reference is recorded as 52711476[26].
  • official language's Fandom article ID is recorded as ru.science:Официальный_язык[27].

Why It Matters

official language ranks in the top 9% of designation entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (586 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 51 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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