ELEMENTAL WRATH

[orphias]

ELEMENTAL WRATH FEAT 1
ELF
You are so attuned to the land that you can call forth a bolt of energy from your
surroundings. When you gain this feat, select acid, cold, electricity, or fire. You can call to the land to cast the acid splash cantrip as an innate primal spell at will, except the spell has only verbal components and deals the type of damage you chose instead of acid damage; the spell gains the trait appropriate to its damage instead of the acid trait. A cantrip is heightened to a spell level equal to half your level rounded up.

So., does " except the spell has only verbal components " mean the cantrip is 2 verbal actions, or is it just a single verbal action?

[Alyran]

Despite the number of actions generally being equal to the number of components, the two are not technically tied to one another. So removing/changing components doesn't directly affect number of actions to cast. Only if it explicitly states that it reduces number of actions will it do that (like quicken spell).

Edit to directly answer the question: It essentially takes two verbal actions to cast the spell.