If your conlang were a natlang...
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? Izambri Left of the middle
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...which language family and/or branch would be part of?

You can post a text sample with glosses to illustrate it.
? twabs fair maiden
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Weyötiss is kind of shit German with some Korean.

Elmin is also shit Korean but in a different way.

The *fruit family is shit Polynesian or something. The Taol family is... Germanic I guess?

I want to make a shit Niger-Congo (probably Dogon) but I need to find a good source language.
? hwhatting posts: 105
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Well, Tautisca is a a posteriori Indo-European language, with mostly Western features - somewhere between Italic, Balto-Slavic, Germanic, and Celtic.
? Rhetorica Your Writing System Sucks
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Necroposting because all posting is necroposting if you're impatient enough.

Lilitika has very blatant Attic phonaesthetics (even with somewhat similar letter frequency tables) in its later dialects, but underneath it all, my actual induction into curiosity about constructed grammar came from a cursory awareness of the agglutinative habits of Korean case markers, so there's some resonance with that in Lilitika's early phases, which verge on polysynthetic. I did manage to get an almost 1:1 parse tree with the opening lines of the Iliad, though, since Lilitika essentially has the PIE cases. Best witnessed here.

Other conlangs on the go:

Ksreskézaian languages are a self-conscious effort to avoid mimicking anything of which I'm aware. However, due to contact with humans, some of the later forms do include a small amount of vocabulary with recognizable Terran roots.

Roshagil: Mandarin after a bad one-night stand with English. Though the vocabulary and near-total lack of morphology is unquestionably Chinese, the depredations of time have curiously restricted the language to the twenty-six letters of the English alphabet. Half a million years in the future, ASCII remains unchanged, though the letter forms are not very recognisable.

Kuanid: Not much of a start on this, but my hope is to eventually derive it from a boiled-down convergence of the procedural languages of the EU—so, mostly French and German. Luxembourgian, if you will, or Italo-Germanic more historically. This is the language spoken by most of the future-humans in the setting, and is notoriously described as having no standard form, but rather an immense sea of synonyms and graphemes that argolects and idiolects are plucked from. Consequently I've considered adding ideograms to Kuanid, but not to Roshagil. Yup.

Glissía: Attic. It's meticulously constructed out of Greek with some of the basic facts of PIE shuffled around for convenience and a formal syntax for symbolic logic grafted onto it. The language is spoken by inconceivably stodgy academics who refuse to change much about it. Originally the plan for Glissía was to find a happy medium between Latinists and Hellenists, a sort of hybrid that all Classicists could be proud of. Then the plan was to construct an absurdly complex superset of both Latin and Greek that could be mixed freeform. Now it's just Greek with extra declensions and cases.
? Hallow XIII Primordial Crab
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Jalvaan would be something spoken in the Ancient Near East. Elamite's long-lost sister perhaps?
Yehlammat bōš louvayīlhan yamukeiyam Šinar ivaidō yapēhottūn deki yore tāmbavān yaneftūn ki yahōrā yalepšur.

Kangshi is, of course, some form of Tibeto-Burman, maybe even Qiangic.
tɤmqɤbstau qxâ bníe btɤʁmâ bɤŋmqɤʐoʁ mzɤpa

Ntaratu and Nyipa would be spoken in Papua New Guinea. I'm sure there's some way to integrate them into Trans-New Guinea.
koyaikolŋewaŋ mpiryak ol karŋki hisewa aŋap ŋatmpow
poʔayapok olokʔa mpaeʔap paontsi poʔa seheʔa kantpaokap nyao

Ubghuu... Ubghuu is weird but I think it might pass for Munda.
Mààdzɔ̀r phę́ę́vo áábe ʔgigɛktɛdhùʐìì tlɔ̀zbò qudzvaŋ ugɛktɛdhùʐììwì.
? Whimemsz posts: 60
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Easy. Hikóómayíi is Arapahoan.

Its broader family is all over the place but contains branches that are Algonquian (containing Hikóómayíi), Iranian, Caddoan, Muskogean, Apachean, and American NWC, at least phonologically. (I also have IE [grammatically but not phonologically] and Austronesian families). Numbers from 1-10 in a few of them to illustrate:

Hikóómayíi: wan hóobo háaθ híišfí ʔáaf póópóof čfí kóočfí čiθ hipá
Sida (Algonquian): kɨn awə hoch iyəhpə kohpə hpapahpə yəhpə tashɨhpə shəshɨch ɨhpɨ

Šāyšbiŋ (Iranian-ish): uŋ āfa θud iyapə ki fāfapə īpə tāyšipə šikiš iɓa
Máséx (Caddoan): sihun asun sút sahkun hunís wárpe yérpe sáhèsírpe skìr tùs
Boowęęts (Apachean): zęę aa tłood eey yęęp haap iishpa teesh siłtsiz bi
Tibayitey (Muskogean-ish): kin obo ład eyo wigye fap yep tiip exšig ibya
Ɨxfaxʸtʸɨq̓ (NWC): χʷɨn awɨ nʷot eɨp̓ʸa k̓ʷɨfʸa ffɨfʸa ɨp̓ʸa θacfʸa cxʸɨs ɨpʷa

Hiurorōt (IE, phonologically more inspired by Blackfoot though it doesn't show up here): ’a’ad pam hen lan ’un ’ihen dō listsich ’uchre kashiē

Untitled (Austronesian): niay hiw ŋə ədiaŋ siaɾ
? Hâlian the Protogen
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Āirumāli would be somewhere between IE and Finno-Ugric, probably?

Hoennese is Austronesian by definition (à posteriori).
? Nortaneous ? ?????
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Most of the Vengic languages would fit about equally well in southern China or central Africa:
kúntɔ ɲe tɕì yutʂɔŋ kɔ̀ye tɕæ̂mɔ yè yǽtə́n
hnɯç thu kɯɲ ɗɤ çihmun hmɔçɔksɔ hmɔhlibyɔphuthukɔ
kʰɔn nəlɔliw ŋle səmlɔw ɲˀəsʔsɔʔnʰɔ̤w ɔ mənˀjæ

But the western languages don't fit there - maybe in the Caucasus or Scandinavia?
tːeŋː mo kʉnéərː ŋgiðą́ hø̨n kiɭo kimǿduŋ toqːá

Amqolic is obviously Kartvelian:
bguli um kharye dzerem dabqamdze da ncha

Kannow, probably PNW:
čqʼəqʼɨ sgaƛanʷ tčpinɨƛčʼeqnʷenəwəw, iġɨtktʼaːʒ́a qʼətʼnasʷəː tʷkʷimbɨːʒ́a ƛŋʷakʷʼaksurġaːnʷ

Hathic, who even knows
gǂey ɓa˞ŋ mʷu k!əy fʷaa faf k!əy ɗe jeɣɛħ, gǂey ɗe ŋ!orʔ lə gǂey ɕe mʷu lə k!akʘi gǂey xɛ kǂek kǁhaʔ kǂeʄi
? Karch posts: 16
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Blit (and by extension Pwao) would be either New Guinea (some underdescribed, CV family in Sandaun Province) or Solomon Islands:
Kao thari haharuwi watho barero-ngi tere . Pipiu towo wa nambirero, kao thari towo gwarero.

Mhra would fit in SEA (or maybe England):
na məˈnæ pɐˈka ˈpɔmrɪ məˈʔo kʰi ŋwæ te u ŋ̊ʰo te

And Baap probably in the Moluccas:
porɨk jʷang hapkit ʷcadop rfamek diring vaai' kaapu' ʸgauh ʸkʷɨɨh ñvahook kbau' hmaneh
? Nortaneous ? ?????
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quoting Karch, Foreigner:
Mhra would fit in SEA (or maybe England):
na məˈnæ pɐˈka ˈpɔmrɪ məˈʔo kʰi ŋwæ te u ŋ̊ʰo te

looks Oceanic
? Izambri Left of the middle
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quoting Nortaneous, Marquis, Maryland:
quoting Karch, Foreigner:
Mhra would fit in SEA (or maybe England):
na məˈnæ pɐˈka ˈpɔmrɪ məˈʔo kʰi ŋwæ te u ŋ̊ʰo te

looks Oceanic

Reminds me of Oshiwambo, for whatever reason.