Suwáá/New Urban
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New Urban Sjowaázh is an emergent variety of Sjowaázh spoken by the youngest generation (children and teens) 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. 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
The phonology is similar to High Sjowaázh, with a few differences.
- Plain unaspirated consonants /p t c k ts tʂ tɕ s ʂ ɕ/ become fully voiced [b d dʑ g dz dʐ dʑ z ʐ ʑ].
- Word-initial /sC-/ clusters become voiceless unaspirated stops.
- gy ky ky' merges with jy cy cy'.
- ly merges with y.
- p may be pronounced [f].
- Stress accent rather than pitch accent (as in Modern Greek).
Morphology
Similar to High Sjowaázh
Ablaut
New Urban Sjowaázh has 43 ablaut classes, compared to High Sjowaázh's 57.