How to find active input language? (keyboard, foreign language)

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How to find the active input language?
Sometimes referred to as, currently selected keyboard layout.

Purpose is use in "If" action.

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KM already has an action to set the input language:

But I can not find an action to query and return a value for input language currently selected.
I searched for Apple Scripts, too.

The active input language is displayed in menu bar in two ways:

  1. in words next to input source icon
  2. √ mark on input source drop-down

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So, can see it, but the question is, how to use it in a KM "if" action?

An earlier post here showed how to find default system language.
A different post showed all available input source languages, like this:

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But the question is how to find the active, currently selected, input language?

I have already searched KM wiki, documentation, and past forum posts.
Also searched Apple Script variables, environment variables, and system variables, in general.
Obviously I'm missing something, but what?

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There are various script incantations which yield strings like:

"com.apple.keylayout.British"
"com.apple.inputmethod.SCIM.ITABC"
"com.apple.keylayout.Hebrew-QWERTY"
"com.apple.keylayout.Greek"

etc.

For example:

(function () {
    'use strict';

    ObjC.import('Carbon');
    ObjC.bindFunction('CFMakeCollectable', ['id', ['void *']]);

    return $.CFMakeCollectable(
            $.TISGetInputSourceProperty(
                $.TISCopyCurrentKeyboardInputSource(),
                $.kTISPropertyInputSourceID
            )
        )
        .js

})();
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Worked perfectly.
Will have many uses.

Thank you @ComplexPoint, very much.

If there is any way I can return the favor, please tell me.
(How about a steak dinner the next time you come to Bangkok?)

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