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 ==Diglossia==
-Sowaázh is strongly diglossic, with the diglossia influenced by social class. High Sowaázh, the prestige variety, is a mixture of 'Onáp'aañ Sowaázh and [[Sowaázh/Classical|Classical Sowaázh]] and is the standard language used in literature, formal writing, newsreading, public announcements. High Sowaázh plays a similar role to the RP accent in British English: most native speakers of High Sowaázh are people from highly educated and wealthy families. On the other end of the spectrum, the lower class speak local lects which are sometimes mutually unintelligible. High Sowaázh is not a static entity; it is defined as whatever the Sowaázh upper class speaks at the time.
+Sowaázh is strongly diglossic, with the diglossia influenced by social class. High Sowaázh, the prestige variety, is a direct descendant of [[Sowaázh/Classical|Classical Sowaázh]] and is the standard language used in literature, formal writing, newsreading, public announcements. High Sowaázh plays a similar role to the RP accent in British English: most native speakers of High Sowaázh are people from highly educated and wealthy families. On the other end of the spectrum, the lower class speak local lects which are sometimes mutually unintelligible. High Sowaázh is not a static entity; it is defined as whatever the Sowaázh upper class speaks at the time.
 The diglossia is also influenced by gender: urban women are more likely than other groups to use more neutral forms and accents (i.e. closer to an abstract pseudo-High Sowaázh "gynelect"). Since the 1340s (fT), a greater permissiveness towards regional and "nonstandard" varieties of Sowaázh has taken hold in education. However, due to greater travel and the mass media, marked features in Sowaázh varieties have also begun to disappear. Today, a quasi-"gynelect", New Urban Sowaázh, is slowly emerging as the canonical non-posh colloquial dialect.