public function getLanguage($request, $db)
 {
     $language_id = $this->getItemId($request);
     // verbosity - here for consistency as we don't have verbose language details to return at the moment
     $verbose = $this->getVerbosity($request);
     $mapper = new LanguageMapper($db, $request);
     $list = $mapper->getLanguageById($language_id, $verbose);
     if (count($list['languages']) == 0) {
         throw new Exception('Language not found', 404);
     }
     return $list;
 }