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.
The coding operations/operation used by the Census Bureau put/puts the reported answers from the question What is this language? into 382 language categories of single languages or language families. These 382 language categories represent the most commonly spoken language at home other than English. Linguists recognize several thousand languages in the world and as respondents report new languages, they are coded and added to the language list.