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-'''New Urban Sowaár''' is an emergent variety of Sowaár spoken by urban middle-class children and teens.
-==Origins==
-Compared to other groups, urban women speakers of Sowaár 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 Sowaár.
-==Phonology==
-The phonology is based on High Sowaár, with a few differences.
-*Plain unaspirated consonants become fully voiced.
-*'''dr tr tr' sr''' merge with '''j c c' x''' into [d͡ʒ t͡ʃ t͡ʃ' ʃ].
-*'''dlr tlr tlr' łr''' become velar laterals '''gl kl kl' khl'''.
-*'''p''' may be pronounced [f].
-*Stress accent rather than pitch accent (as in Modern Greek).
-==Morphology==
-Similar to High Sjowaár
-===Ablaut===
-New Urban Sjowaár has 40 ablaut classes, compared to High Sowaár's 57.
-==Vocabulary==
-[[Eevo]] loanwords are much more common in New Urban Sowaár than in High Sowaár. Many words of Eevo origin are pseudo-Eevoisms or clippings of Eevo words and phrases. High Sowaár used to prefer to borrow from [[Skellan/Accents#Conservative_Alcvean|Skellan Eevo]], but today [[Skellan/Accents#General_Fyxoomian|Fyxoomian Eevo]] is the norm for new borrowings.

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