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'''New Urban Sjowaázh''' is an emergent variety of Sjowaázh spoken by the youngest generation of the urban middle class. | '''New Urban Sjowaázh''' is an emergent variety of Sjowaázh spoken by the youngest generation of the urban middle class. | ||
==Origins== | ==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. | 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. |
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