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Forms of '''{{PAGENAME}}''' (English: ''soo-WAHZH''; Amísreg: ''Sowaár da·srég'' /sʊ̀wɑ̌ːɻ tɑ̀ʂɛ́k/, gloss: Sowaár {{sc|3pl}}-language) are the dominant languages in [[Verse:Tricin/Sóol|Sowaár daSóol]] in [[Verse:Tricin/Txapoalli]]. Sowaár is a non-configurational polysynthetic language with a complex verbal morphology. | Forms of '''{{PAGENAME}}''' (English: ''soo-WAHZH''; Amísreg: ''Sowaár da·srég'' /sʊ̀wɑ̌ːɻ tɑ̀ʂɛ́k/, gloss: Sowaár {{sc|3pl}}-language) are the dominant languages in [[Verse:Tricin/Sóol|Sowaár daSóol]] in [[Verse:Tricin/Txapoalli]]. Sowaár is a non-configurational polysynthetic language with a complex verbal morphology. | ||
{{PAGENAME}} forms a single dialect continuum and is otherwise an isolate | {{PAGENAME}} forms a single dialect continuum and is otherwise an isolate | ||
==External history== | ==External history== | ||
Sowaár 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 mainly by Navajo, and secondarily by Hmong and Vietnamese. Sowaár has a wide variety of accents and dialects in a small area and a posh accent/register associated with the upper class, and it also ablauts verbs; that's where the similarities with English end. | Sowaár 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 mainly by Navajo, and secondarily by Hmong and Vietnamese. Sowaár has a wide variety of accents and dialects in a small area and a posh accent/register associated with the upper class, and it also ablauts verbs; that's where the similarities with English end. | ||
==Internal history== | |||
The name Sowaár means literally "good people" (from ''so'' 'good' + ''waár'' 'person'). | |||
Some speculate that {{PAGENAME}} is related to the [[Quame languages]]. | |||
==Diglossia== | ==Diglossia== | ||
Sowaár is strongly diglossic, with the diglossia influenced by social class. The prestige variety Amísreg (Sowaár: /ɑmíʂɛk/ 'noble language') is a cousin of [[Sowaár/Classical|Classical Sowaár]] with some borrowing from Classical Sowaár, and it is the standard language used in literature, formal writing, newsreading, and public announcements. Amísreg plays a similar role to the RP accent in British English: most native speakers of Amísreg 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. Amísreg is not a static entity; it is defined as whatever the Sowaár upper class speaks at the time. | Sowaár is strongly diglossic, with the diglossia influenced by social class. The prestige variety Amísreg (Sowaár: /ɑmíʂɛk/ 'noble language') is a cousin of [[Sowaár/Classical|Classical Sowaár]] with some borrowing from Classical Sowaár, and it is the standard language used in literature, formal writing, newsreading, and public announcements. Amísreg plays a similar role to the RP accent in British English: most native speakers of Amísreg 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. Amísreg is not a static entity; it is defined as whatever the Sowaár upper class speaks at the time. | ||
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The hierarchy of lects is roughly as follows: | The hierarchy of lects is roughly as follows: | ||
*Upper class: Amísreg | *Upper class: Amísreg | ||
*Professional class: accented | *Professional class: accented Standard Sowaár | ||
*Middle class: local vernacular + | *Middle class: local vernacular + Standard Sowaár | ||
*Working/lower class: broad local vernacular | *Working/lower class: broad local vernacular | ||