Country Languages in a Cell in Google Sheets & Excel — =VERVE("countrylanguages", "ZW")

What this pulls

Look up a country's languages by the row. =VERVE("countrylanguages", A2) lists official and spoken languages down a column — Sheets or Excel.

It's one of 250+ live sources you reach with a single =VERVE() function — served from APIVerve's production data engine, billed at 1 credit per resolved cell, and refreshed on whatever cadence you set. No API keys to wrangle, no scripts, no exports.

See it in a cell

A real example — the input you type, and the values you can pull from it. Click any cell to see the formula behind it.

countrylanguages.xlsxsample data

B2fx=VERVE("countrylanguages", A2, "country")

Name

Country

Official Name

Official Language Count

Republic of Zimbabwe

click any cell to see its formula1 credit / cell

Ways to use it

Enrich an address list

Have a column of places? Fill =VERVE("countrylanguages", "ZW") down it to resolve each into structured location data — coordinates, timezone, or region — right in the grid.

Clean location data in place

Normalize messy, hand-entered locations into consistent values without exporting to another tool and importing the result back.

Location-aware calculations

Feed Country Languages in a Cell's output straight into distance, timezone, or cost math with the spreadsheet functions you already use.

Use it in your sheet

The same function works in both apps — install once, sign in with your key, and type it into any cell.

Google SheetsAdd-on

Install from the Workspace Marketplace, then drop the formula into a cell. Autocomplete suggests the source and its fields.

=VERVE("countrylanguages", "ZW")

Microsoft ExcelAdd-in

Same source, same arguments, same key — in Excel on desktop, the web, or mobile. Excel namespaces it as VERVE.CALL. Drag to fill a whole column.

=VERVE.CALL("countrylanguages", "ZW")

Fields you can pull

Add a field name as the last argument to land just that value in the cell.

Country
=VERVE("countrylanguages", "ZW", "field", "country")
Name
=VERVE("countrylanguages", "ZW", "field", "name")
Official Name
=VERVE("countrylanguages", "ZW", "field", "officialName")
Official Languages
=VERVE("countrylanguages", "ZW", "field", "officialLanguages")
Official Language Count
=VERVE("countrylanguages", "ZW", "field", "officialLanguageCount")

Country Languages in a Cell, answered

Everything you need to wire it into a sheet.

How do I pull Country Languages in a Cell into a spreadsheet?

Install the VerveSheets add-on, sign in with your key, and type =VERVE("countrylanguages", "ZW") into any cell. The same function works in Google Sheets and Excel — no scripts, no API wiring.

How many credits does each Country Languages in a Cell cell cost?

Each resolved cell costs 1 credit. Filling a column of ten rows costs ten times that; a cell only re-bills when it actually refreshes, so a static sheet doesn't keep charging.

Can I fill a whole column at once?

Yes. Reference a range instead of a single cell — e.g. point Country Languages in a Cell at A2:A50 — and it returns a value for every row in one call, or just drag =VERVE("countrylanguages", "ZW") down like any spreadsheet function.

Does Country Languages in a Cell work in Excel as well as Google Sheets?

Yes. It's the same =VERVE() function with the same arguments and the same key in both — build a sheet in one and it behaves identically in the other.

How current is the data?

Country Languages in a Cell is served live from APIVerve's production data engine, and cells recalculate on the refresh cadence you choose — every open, hourly, or every 30 minutes.

Where does the data come from, and what shows on my bill?

VerveSheets runs on APIVerve, our production data engine; Country Languages in a Cell is one of 300+ sources on the same key. Invoices and card statements show APIVERVE.

Country Languages in a Cell

Enrich an address list

Clean location data in place

Location-aware calculations

Country Languages in a Cell, answered

Put Country Languages in a Cell in your next spreadsheet. Add the extension, paste the formula, and the cell keeps itself current.

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