The Scottish Parliament has passed legislation to appoint a âNamed Personâ for every child in Scotland. This is a state official tasked with looking after a childâs âwellbeingâ, that is, their âhappinessâ. The scheme is compulsory. 2  Every child will have a Named Person by law. 3  They will have power to access confidential data on the family, and to talk to a child without their parents agreeing with what they say.
The simplest collapse recodes the 382 languages into four major language groups: Spanish, Other Indo-European languages, Asian and Pacific Island languages, and Other languages. A more detailed collapsing puts the 382 codes into 39 languages and language groups.
Linguists estimate that there are about 6,000-7,000 different languages spoken in the world today. The imprecision in this estimate is largely due to the fact that some dialects are in the process of diverging and it is not clear that they have reached the stage of being separate languages.