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'''New Urban Sowaár''' is an emergent variety of Sowaár spoken by urban middle-class children and teens. | '''New Urban Sowaár''' is an emergent variety of Sowaár spoken by urban middle-class children and teens. It is characterized by: | ||
*a vocabulary and grammar that is a mixture of formal/standard Sowaár and informal/basilectal Sowaár, where formal Sowaár is used for high-register words and concepts | |||
*a non-posh accent | |||
==Origins== | ==Origins== | ||
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. | 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. | ||