Country Languages in Google Sheets & Excel

What this pulls

Look up a country's languages by the row. 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, "field", "name")

Country

Name

Official Name

Official Language Count

Zimbabwe

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", "field", "name") 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'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", "field", "name")

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", "field", "name")

Fields you can pull

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

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
=VERVE("countrylanguages", "ZW", "field", "country")

Country Languages, answered

Everything you need to wire it into a sheet.

How do I pull Country Languages into Google Sheets?

Install the VerveSheets add-on, sign in once with your key, and type =VERVE("countrylanguages", "ZW", "field", "name") into any cell. The "field" argument names the value you want back, so the cell resolves to a single number or string you can chart, sort, or feed into another formula.

What data can I pull from Country Languages?

Country Languages returns name, officialName, officialLanguages, officialLanguageCount and country — name any one of them as the "field" argument and that value lands in the cell. Leave the field out and the whole record spills into a two-column table instead.

Can I fill a whole column of Country Languages at once?

Yes. Put your country values down a column and point the formula at the range — A2:A50 instead of A2 — and one call returns a value for every row. Dragging the formula down works too, but the range form is a single billed call per column rather than one per cell.

How many credits does each Country Languages cell cost?

Each resolved cell costs 1 credit. A cell only re-bills when it actually refreshes, so a sheet you aren't touching doesn't keep charging.

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

Yes — same arguments, same key, same fields. Excel namespaces custom functions, so the call is =VERVE.CALL() there and =VERVE() in Google Sheets; nothing else about it changes.

Country Languages

Enrich an address list

Clean location data in place

Location-aware calculations

Country Languages, answered

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

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