Swamp Lizardman languages

The Swamp Lizardman language family is a family of languages spoken by the indigenous Lizardman population of Southern Etrand. It is currently the only exant branch of the Continental Lizardman languages besides the Charnek Lizardman language, which is an isolate. It consists of several languages that have varying degrees of mutual intelligibility.

Evolution from the Common Continental Lizardman language
While the Swamp Lizardman languages are multiple and divergent, they all share certain traits, including some of the shifts they went through during the evolution from the Continental Lizardman proto-language. These shifts include:
 * Palatalization of velars to a new class of alveolo-palatals  before front vowels and
 * A heavy amount of vowel reduction and vowel elision, resulting in the complete collapse of the initial-medial-final system, a large number of syllabic consonants, and complex consonant clusters not allowed in any other Lizardman languages.
 * An additional tendency of desyllibifaction, as in, formerly syllabic consonants losing their syllabic status.
 * The two processes combined together could even result in a four-syllable word being reduced to just one syllable, such as →  →
 * It is important to note that neither the vowel reduction, nor the desyllibification were entirely predictable or even consistent. Additionally, there was more to the desyllibification process than just producing consonant clusters by removing the syllabic status of consonants. Sometimes, syllabic consonants also produced a prosthetic vowel, when the new word would have resulted in a consonant cluster too complex.