The languages of the world vs Tractatus logico-philosophicus: Which Should You Read?

The languages of the world Kenneth Katzner · 1975 376 pages · ≈ 6 h 58 m · Challenging

An excellent overview of how all the world's main languages interconnect where they do. It also gives samples of the language with translation for a large number of languages.

Tractatus logico-philosophicus Ludwig Wittgenstein · 1921 ★★★★☆ 4.1 90 pages · ≈ 1 h 40 m · Demanding

“Perhaps this book will be understood only by someone who has himself already had the thoughts that are expressed in it-or at least similar thoughts.”

Wittgenstein's book about the problems of language and his attempt of describing the world and an philosophical accurate and most of all logical language.