From the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language has a delightful family tree of Indo-European languages, though I was kinda miffed at the omission of my parents' native tongue.
The Family of Languages
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Ethnologue is complete, but, sadly, not as visually pleasing.
- It's quite an adventure to study the variation though, and the book even has a full geography of all 6000+ languages known.