My Shelf Order

And, for no particular reason, here is the order of items on my shelves--by language genealogy (based on linguistic and geographic distance from English) and within each language by order of publication:  (Page 1) English, Frisian, Dutch, Afrikaans, German, Luxembourgish, Yiddish, Icelandic, Faroese, Norwegian (Nynorsk), Norwegian (Bokmål), Danish, Swedish (Page 2) Swedish, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Russian, Polish (Page 3) Polish, Silesian, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Serbian, Slovenian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Lithuanian (Page 4) Lithuanian, Latvian, Latin, French, Occitan, Catalan, Spanish, Asturian, Portuguese, Galician, Romansh, Italian, Romanian, (Page 5) Romanian, Irish, Gaelic, Welsh, Cornish, Breton, Albanian, Greek, Armenian, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Farsi, Urdu, Marathi, Bengali (Bangladeshi), Bengali (Indian), Sinhala, Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian, Saami, Basque, Georgian, Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish, Azerbaijani, Kazakh, (Page 6) Kazakh, Uzbek, Mongolian (Bichig), Mongolian (Cyrillic), Korean, Japanese, Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified) (Page 7) Chinese (Simplified), Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian

If you look carefully, you might notice that Pages 1-4 are entirely from Indo-European languages, with the non-Indo-European languages beginning at the end of the fifth row of Page 5.  Even within the Indo-European languages, the non-European Indo-Iranian languages of the family are in the final Indo-European rows at the top of Page 5 preceded by several small European groups (Celtic, Albanian, Greek, and Armenian).  Within the European languages, Page 1 is entirely Germanic (beginning with English), Pages 2-3 are almost entirely Balto-Slavic, and Page 4 is almost entirely Italic.