Common Continental Lizardman language

Common Continental Lizardman was the language of the Ancient Lizardman Empire between around 15 000 BEKE and 9 000 BEKE. Many of the changes that shaped the language's evolution took palce in this period of time.

Evolution from Late Classical Lizardman

 * The coda-position consonants merge into a glottal stop.
 * merges with.
 * The voiceless unaspirated and voiced consonants become allophonic with each other - they merge with each other.
 * The palato-alveolar sibilants and retroflex stops  merge into one retroflex sibilant series.
 * The initial disappears.
 * The clusters coalesce into new labio-velar stops.
 * , and  merge into.
 * becomes a new vowel, after the alveolar sibilants  and retroflex consonants.
 * Various vowel mergers and shifts:
 * , and  into
 * and merge into
 * and merge into
 * and merge into
 * and merge into
 * and merge into
 * and merge into
 * and merge into
 * becomes, reintroducing that vowel in open syllables
 * becomes, reintroducing that vowel in open syllables

Phonotactics

 * An optional initial
 * An optional glide (only after a null initial, or non-approximant labial initials)
 * A mandatory vowel
 * An optional coda-position glottal stop or tone

Initials

 * The lenis initials had voiced allophones  medially.