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New Urban Sjowaázh has 40 ablaut classes, compared to High Sowaázh's 57. | New Urban Sjowaázh has 40 ablaut classes, compared to High Sowaázh's 57. | ||
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Skellan loanwords are much more common than in High Sowaázh. | [Skellan]] loanwords are much more common than in High Sowaázh. Many words of Skellan origin are pseudo-Skellanisms or clippings of Skellan words. | ||
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New Urban Sjowaázh is an emergent variety of Sowaázh spoken by urban middle-class children and teens.
Origins
Compared to other groups, urban women speakers of Sowaázh speak somewhat more uniformly, in a less dialectal and somewhat more posh style of speech. Young women being the main drivers of linguistic change, a version of this "gynelect" is on its way to becoming a new, non-posh standard for Sowaázh.
Phonology
The phonology is based on High Sowaázh, with a few differences.
- Plain unaspirated consonants /p t c k ts tʂ tɕ/ become fully voiced [b d dʑ g dz dʐ dʑ].
- Word-initial /sC-/ clusters become voiceless unaspirated stops.
- gy ky ky' merge with jy cy cy'.
- ly merges with y.
- p may be pronounced [f].
- Stress accent rather than pitch accent (as in Modern Greek).
Morphology
Similar to High Sjowaázh
Ablaut
New Urban Sjowaázh has 40 ablaut classes, compared to High Sowaázh's 57.
Vocabulary
[Skellan]] loanwords are much more common than in High Sowaázh. Many words of Skellan origin are pseudo-Skellanisms or clippings of Skellan words.