Alapetek languages

The Alapetek languages (sometimes also spelled Alapetic) are a language family native to the region of Alapet and the rest of southeastern Larania. The family is subdivided into three major branches with a total of 7 extant sub-branches: Koxoric, Ghazvaic, Ilunic, Steppe (of the Southern branch), Daunic, Eriya (of the Northern branch), and Nivonic (of the Nivonatic branch).

History of the theory
An evolutionary link between Koxori and Ghazvan has been known for centuries, but no parallels were drawn with the other languages of the region until 1812, when the Koxoriek linguist Iteskir Nolu proposed a common ancestor between these two languages, his native Metesin, and the Hethalan of his home city. He began work on reconstructing the common ancestor of Koxori and Ghazvan, and in 1817 published a grammar of what he called "Proto-Koxoric". Shortly after his death in 1833, manuscripts written by him were published that also linked the Koxoric family to Daunic and Eriya, between which similarities had also been noted by linguists. This theory was dismissed by scholars until ten years later, when his student Monsornu Olkan completed his reconstruction of the languages' common ancestor. As a result, the "Alapetek" family was born, with Koxoric being renamed to the Southern Alapetek family and Dauno-Eriya to the Northern family. Some years later, Monsornu suggested a further link to the Nivonic dialects of Arnyvonna, and re-wrote Proto-Alapetek to incorporate them. He made the reconstruction of the language his life's work until his own death in 1864. Since then, linguists in Alapet and worldwide have worked heavily on the language, today making it one of the most extensively reconstructed proto-languages in the world.

Subgroupings
There are seven minor branches of the family with languages still spoken today, along with many extinct branches. Most theories place the Nivonic branch splitting off first, followed by the Southern languages and then the Northern.


 * Nivonatic (c. 5000 BCE)
 * High Nivonatic (c. 3500 BCE)
 * Teneri † (c. 1800 BCE)
 * Nyvonic (c. 1500 BCE)
 * Old Lepian Nyvonic (c. 600 CE)
 * Lepian (c. 1200 CE)
 * Misi Nyvonic (c. 1000 CE)
 * Kanuru Nyvonic (c. 1300 CE)
 * Tavoric (c. 1200 BCE)
 * Tavorian (c. 1000 CE)
 * Lomu † (c. 500 BCE)
 * Low Nivonatic (c. 2200 BCE)
 * Proto-Lesic (c. 1400 BCE)
 * Lesi (c. 800 CE)
 * Mienu (c. 1000 CE)
 * Southern (c. 4000 BCE)
 * Ilun (c. 3000 BCE)
 * Upper Ilun (c. 2000 BCE)
 * Old Kasari (c. 900 BCE)
 * Kasari (c. 500 CE)
 * Eilon (c. 1400 BCE)
 * Itekhanic (c. 800 BCE)
 * Itekhan (c. 100 BCE)
 * Lower Ilun (c. 1700 BCE)
 * Lurenerian † (c. 1300 BCE)
 * Old Hethalan (c. 1000 BCE)
 * Middle Hethalan (c. 200 BCE)
 * Hethalan (c. 800 CE)
 * Makei † (c. 800 BCE)
 * Koxoric (c. 2600 BCE)
 * Ankhulenic † (c. 2500 BCE): Old High Ankhulenian †
 * Khoren † (c. 2000 BCE)
 * High Ankhulenian † (c. 1800 BCE)
 * Kareic † (c. 1500 BCE)
 * Timyranian † (c. 1100 BCE)
 * Lemeni † (c. 2000 BCE)
 * Itekesi † (c. 1700 BCE)
 * Atanulan † (c. 1700 BCE)
 * Ancient Koxori † (c. 800 BCE)
 * Old Koxori † (c. 200 CE)
 * Middle Koxori (c. 1300 CE)
 * Modern Standard Koxori (1600s CE)
 * Tugritic (c. 2200 BCE)
 * Tugrite † (c. 1900 BCE)
 * Ghazvaic (c. 1700 BCE)
 * Steppe (c. 1400 BCE)