Geocode to language

Question

I'm looking for an API that returns which language is spoken in country of the given coordinates. Does anyone know if something like that exists?

Coordinate to country lookup use this answer: http://stackoverflow.com/a/3666861/317706 Language(s) spoken in the country: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1876170/317706 — user317706, Jun 03 '12 at 10:08

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 06 '12 at 13:15

ws.geonames.org provides this service. Here is some sample code using JavaScript and jQuery, but you can access it with any language:

var lookupLanguagesWithGeonames = function(lat, lng) {

    $.getJSON('http://ws.geonames.org/countryCode', {
        lat: lat,
        lng: lng,
        type: 'JSON'
    }, function(results) {
        if (results.countryCode) {
            alert('coordinates: ' + lat + ', ' + lng + '\n' + 'languages: ' + results.languages);
        } else {
            alert('coordinates: ' + lat + ', ' + lng + '\n' + 'failed: ' + results.status.value + ' ' + results.status.message);
        }
    });
};

// Coordinates that fall within a country
lookupLanguagesWithGeonames(43.7534932, 28.5743187);

// Coordinates which are not within any country
lookupLanguagesWithGeonames(142, 124);

jsfiddle link

Geocode to language

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