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Compared to other groups, urban women speakers of Sjowaázh 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 the gynelect is on its way to becoming a new, non-posh standard for Sjowaázh. | Compared to other groups, urban women speakers of Sjowaázh 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 the gynelect is on its way to becoming a new, non-posh standard for Sjowaázh. | ||
==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||
The phonology is similar to High Sjowaázh, with a few differences. | |||
*Word-initial /sC-/ clusters become /C-/. | |||
*'''zh''' is a retroflex approximant. | |||
*'''ly''' merges with '''y'''. | |||
*There is more syncope. | |||
*Stress accent rather than pitch accent (as in Modern Greek). | |||