A language family tree - in pictures

[tooblue]

Amazingly lovely graphic:

http://www.theguardian.com/education/gallery/2015/jan/23/a-language-family-tree-in-pictures#img-1

http://i.guim.co.uk/static/w-1920/h--/q-95/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2015/1/7/1420647015259/3628f5a3-9110-4c01-bcfc-9b4ca9c00bd5-2060x1340.jpeg

[chrisrenrut]

Fascinating. I would have thought English would have closer ties to Latin and Greek than Germanic languages.

So so many in here I have never heard of before. I did find Sanskrit, my go-to metaphor for something I can't understand.