Here's a jpeg of a chart showing the relationships of the world's languages. If I recall correctly, a character in Neal Stephenson's novel Cryptonomicon speaks Manx. Languages (and codes/programming) are recurring themes in Stephenson's fiction. In Snowcrash, Hiro Protagonist is confronted with a (Sumerian) meme which acts like a virus.
(I do like the idea of spoken languages being programming languages used for our wetware (brain/ nervous system).
In 1999, Stephenson wrote an online essay about proprietary operating systems, In the Beginning was the Command Line. It's a bit old now, but still worth reading. In the Beginning was updated in 2004 by Garrett Birkel (with Stephenson's permission).
February Morning
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February Morning On my way home last nightI said goodnight to the moon.But
she seemed distant,Perhaps didn’t hear me.Just carried on, staring down.I
wonder...
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