Alapetek languages

The Alapetek languages are the second-largest language family on Laraniem, native to northeastern mainland Laraniem, where it comprises most of the area's native languages. There are two main attested branches of the Alapetek family, Eastern and Western Alapetek, though other smaller, now-extinct branches are proposed to have existed. The most-spoken Alapetek language by far is Koxori, with around 1.95 billion speakers, followed by Matthuvan and Ghazvan. In total, around 14.2% (5.3 billion) of all Laraniemian people speak an Alapetek language as a first language, the second-highest of any language family after the Atrapic languages. There are about 130 living Alapetek languages, most of which are endangered. All Alapetek languages evolved from a single common ancestor, known as Proto-Alapetek, spoken around 3500 years ago. The precise location of its speakers is unknown, but it has been hypothesised to be somewhere along the fertile southern coast of what is now Ghazva. No written evidence emerged of an Alapetek language until long after the mother language had diversified into several other branches, but the text that has been uncovered - notably King Xorolha's Inscription, written in Ancient Koxori and discovered in the City of the Holy Falcon - has proved useful in the reconstruction of Proto-Alapetek.

Branches
The Alapetek family has five main existing branches, alongside two extinct ones that have been attested.