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.
Index of languages by language family. There are between 6,000 and 7,000 languages currently spoken in the world. Ethnologue lists 7,097 language, of which 3,947 have fewer than 10,000 speakers. By end of the 21st century it is thought that between 50-90% of all languages will be extinct.