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:''{{SUBPAGENAME}} is highly diglossic; unless stated otherwise, this page describes the modern standard High Sjowaázh register. For the other varieties, see the subpages devoted to individual varieties.

|nativename = Sjowaázh dashég

|pronunciation= /stsʊwɑ̌ɻ tɑʂˑɛ́k/

|region = Sjowaázh daSóol, in Txapoalli

|fam1= [[Proto-Sjowaazhic|Sjowaazhic]]

|nation=Sjowaázh daSóol (''de facto'')

Forms of '''{{PAGENAME}}''' (English: ''soo-WAHZH''; High Sjowaázh: ''Sjowaázh da·shég'' /stsʊwɑ̌ːɻ tɑʂɛ́k/, gloss: Sjowaázh {{sc|3pl}}-language) are the dominant languages in [[Verse:Tricin/Sóol|Sjowaázh daSóol]] in [[Verse:Tricin/Txapoalli]]. Sjowaázh is a non-configurational polysynthetic language with a complex verbal morphology.  

Sjowaázh is made for a [[Verse:Tricin/Sóol|Japan- and Britain-inspired country]] in Tricin but is intended to be very different from Japanese or English. It is aesthetically inspired by Navajo, Polish, and Hungarian. Sjowaázh has a wide variety of accents and dialects in a small area and a posh register associated with the upper class, and it also ablauts verbs; that's where the similarities with English end.

Sjowaázh is strongly diglossic, with the diglossia influenced by social class. High Sjowaázh, the prestige variety, is a mixture of 'Onáp'aañ Sjowaázh and [[Sjowaázh/Classical|Classical Sjowaázh]] and is the standard language used in literature, formal writing, newsreading, public announcements. High Sjowaázh plays a similar role to the RP accent in British English: most native speakers of High Sjowaázh 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 Sjowaázh is not a static entity; it is defined as whatever the Sjowaázh 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 Sjowaázh "gynelect"). Since the 1340s (fT), a greater permissiveness towards regional and "nonstandard" varieties of Sjowaázh has taken hold in education. However, due to greater travel and the mass media, marked features in Sjowaázh varieties have also begun to disappear. Today, a quasi-"gynelect", New Urban Sjowaázh, is slowly emerging as the canonical non-posh colloquial dialect.

*Upper class: High Sjowaázh

*Professional class: accented High Sjowaázh

*Middle class: local vernacular + High Sjowaázh

High Sjowaázh is the variety taught in Sjowaázh schools and also the variety that is often first taught to non-natives. Though most natives are able to speak the proper language from learning it in school, they only choose to use it in certain situations, like greeting a customer, or talking to a stranger over the phone.

The language encountered in Sjowaázh pop culture can be much less posh, depending on the region and social class of the characters, and the target audience. The most frequently used Sjowaázh varieties in pop culture are the urban middle-class lects (most creators live in or near one of the major urban centers, e.g. 'Onápaañ, Jighoó'ii, Cyamányeñh). Using more unusual lects mark certain types of characters (e.g. rural lects for country hicks, broad urban lects for hypermasculine bros, a caricatured "gynelect" for ditzy teenage girls, High Sjowaázh for posh villains, ...)

sjowaazh should be non-config

All consonants are long, compared to English and other Sjowaázh dialects: with plain stops the hold is longer, with aspirated stops the aspiration is longer, and with affricates the frication is longer. The voice onset time of the aspirated and ejective stops is twice as long as that found in most other languages.

Other Sjowaázh lects have different tonal systems or none. For example, the Cyamányeh lect has no tone.

Sjowaázh allows the following initial clusters: ''sb sd sj sjh sjy sgy sg'' /sˑp sˑt sˑts ʂˑtʂ ɕˑtɕ sˑc sˑk/.

===Conservative High Sjowaázh===

In Conservative High Sjowaázh, the '''g'''-series is realized as postvelar, and the '''gy'''-series is realized as prevelar. The vowels '''o oo''' are consistently [o o:], and '''a aa''' are less back [ä ä:] unless adjacent to '''g'''-series consonants.

Conservative High Sjowaázh retains the Classical Sjowaázh 3-tone system in a simplified form, which moderners may perceive as overdramatic.

*Classical Sjowaázh: á, a, à, áa, aà, aá, aa

All varieties of Sjowaázh are written in the Sjowaázh alphabet, which was originally developed as a phonetic notation system like the IPA. High Sjowaázh spelling is based on Conservative High Sjowaázh.

All Sjowaázh lects have extensive sandhi systems. The following describes High Sjowaázh sandhi.

:''Main article: [[Sjowaázh/Morphology]]''

Sjowaázh is strongly head-marking, like many indigenous languages of North and Central America.

High Sjowaázh is non-configurational. Noun phrases are head-final.

*''shiilyohóokh'' = 'they pile up forming a line' > ''shiilyohóokhin'' = (a type of scale used in Sjowaázh music)

Sjowaázh, in addition to native words, uses many loans from Naquic and Tsimulh languages. Borrowed words are almost all nouns.

To abbreviate words, Sjowaázh uses clipping.

Due to the popularity of Sjowaázh pop culture across the globe, Sjowaázh is commonly learned by Sjowaázhophile otakus. Sjowaázh is considered one of the most daunting languages for speakers of most Northern languages, due to its morphological complexity and high degree of diglossia.

Sjowaázh poetry uses quantitative meters, like Sanskrit.