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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. Borrowing words with Skellan Skellan pronunciation used to be preferred, but now Fyxoomian Skellan is the norm for new borrowings.

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