Suwáá/New Urban
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New Urban Sjowaázh is an emergent variety of Sjowaázh spoken by the youngest generation of the urban middle class.
Origins
Compared to other groups, urban women speakers of Sjowaázh speak somewhat more uniformly, in a less dialectal and somewhat more posh style of speech. Thus we might coin the term "gynelect" for this speech. The term is somewhat misleading, as few women have all the characteristics of the gynelect. However, 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.