Partosimsa

I know I’m a smidge late, but I do have one question:

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As a professional conlanger what’s your best advice for conlangs based on real language trees, and intertwining those that aren’t?

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I’ve been super passionate about conlanging for about 17 years, starting my first cypher when I was 5 and my first conlang when I was 8.(22M) My favorite ideas are part of a project set that I’ve been working on for about 3 years now; with 1 functioning conlang and a second and third in the process. Converging isolates and linguistic areas that aren’t close, not as creoles, but as proto-languages for a uniform outcome; varying only by dialect. I’ve stumbled upon something. It’s all just Standard European. Even when I mix in Native American into the Euro-sprachbund, it’s still just English, Spanish, Greek, Latin, or Finnish, with a mask on; using different words, or it becomes an isolated language with no directly present links to any language family tree.

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TL;dr: Basically, I’m making English, but based on different areas of the world. It all feels too similar even when making A-priori decisions/additions. How could I “spice it up”, but not create a language isolate, nor an already-existing language?

Med-low heat, 2tbs butter, half-cup red wine vinegar, salt and pepper to taste. Simmer until onions are caramel-colored and creamy, but still firm.

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Nuna temperata coasi mediana con doí cojolaz de boro, semi-tasa de vino róso, sal e pimento al savo. Calentés oz sibolaz nasé cé éz se caramelises e cé tes caligate, ma tamén stavile.