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'''New Urban | '''New Urban Sowaár''' is an emergent variety of Sowaár spoken by urban middle-class children and teens. | ||
==Origins== | ==Origins== | ||
Compared to other groups, urban women speakers of | Compared to other groups, urban women speakers of Sowaár 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 this "gynelect" is on its way to becoming a new, non-posh standard for Sowaár. | ||
==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||
The phonology is based on High | The phonology is based on High Sowaár, with a few differences. | ||
*Plain unaspirated consonants become fully voiced. | *Plain unaspirated consonants become fully voiced. | ||
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==Morphology== | ==Morphology== | ||
Similar to High | Similar to High Sjowaár | ||
===Ablaut=== | ===Ablaut=== | ||
New Urban | New Urban Sjowaár has 40 ablaut classes, compared to High Sowaár's 57. | ||
==Vocabulary== | ==Vocabulary== | ||
[[Eevo]] loanwords are much more common than in High | [[Eevo]] loanwords are much more common than in High Sowaár. Many words of Eevo origin are pseudo-Eevoisms or clippings of Eevo words and phrases. High Sowaár used to prefer to borrow from [[Skellan/Accents#Conservative_Alcvean|Skellan Eevo]], but today [[Skellan/Accents#General_Fyxoomian|Fyxoomian Eevo]] is the norm for new borrowings. | ||