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|nativename = Sowaár dasrég

|region = Sowaár daSóol, in Txapoalli

|nation=Sowaárp'í (''de facto'')

'''{{PAGENAME}}''' (English: ''soo-WAHR''; Amísreg: ''Sowaár da·srég'' /sʊ̀wɑ̌ːɻ tɑ̀ʂɛ́k/, gloss: Sowaár {{sc|3pl}}-language-INAL) is the dominant language in [[Verse:Tricin/Sowaárp'í|Sowaárp'í]] in [[Verse:Tricin/Txapoalli]]. Sowaár is a non-configurational polysynthetic language with a complex verbal morphology.  

Sowaár is made for a [[Verse:Tricin/Sóol|Japan- and Britain-inspired country]] in Tricin but is intended to be very different from Japanese or English. It is aesthetically inspired mainly by Navajo, and secondarily by Hmong and Vietnamese. On the other hand, its grammar is Inuit-inspired.

The name ''Sowaár'' literally means "good people" (from ''so-'' 'good' + ''waár'', an obsolete root meaning 'people'; some draw a connection to Proto-Quame ''*kwarom'').

The following describes Amísreg (Standard Sowáar) phonology.

Amísreg has a large consonant inventory of 36 consonants:

|+ '''Consonant phonemes in Amísreg'''

!  colspan=2 style="width: 68px; " |Dental

!  colspan=2 style="width: 68px; " |Retroflex

| '''nr''' /ɳ/

| '''d''' /t/

| '''dl''' /tl/

| '''j''' /tɕ/

| '''t''' /tʰ/

| '''tl''' /tɬʰ/

| '''c''' /tɕʰ/

| '''t'''' /tʼ/

| '''tl'''' /tɬʼ/

| '''c'''' /tɕʼ/

| '''ł''' /ɬ/

| '''sr''' /ʂ/

| '''łr''' /ɬʵ/

| '''x''' /ɕ/

|colspan="2"| '''r''' /ɻ~ɭ/

All consonants in Amísreg are long, compared to English and other Sowaár dialects: with plain stops the hold is longer, with aspirated stops the aspiration is longer, and with affricates the frication is longer. The voice onset time of the aspirated and ejective stops is twice as long as that found in most other languages.

Amísreg retroflexes are subapical (like Tamil retroflexes), unlike retroflexes in other accents. Native speakers describe subapical retroflexes as "posh", "deep" or "dignified".

Amísreg has only 4 vowel qualities, although there is phonemic vowel length.

|+ '''Amísreg oral vowels'''

Modern Amísreg has a two-level tone system - every word will have at least one high pitched mora but may have more than one, especially in longer words. A mora with high pitch is marked with an acute accent.

Other Sowaár lects have different tonal systems or none. For example, the Cyamányeh lect has no tone.

Sowaár allows no initial clusters.

:''Main article: [[Sowaár/Accents]]

There are two dimensions of linguistic variation in Sowaár:  

*'''Vocabulary and grammar''': Standard Sowaár (''He'aásreg'') and regional dialects. New Urban Sowaár is a koiné consisting of a mixture of the two, with register changes.

**''He'aásreg'' itself is a mixture of a local dialect and Classical Sowaár.

*'''Accent''': Even when speaking Standard Sowaár (not a regional dialect), one is usually expected to keep a regional accent. Having no regional accent at all is associated with being upper class. An Amísreg speaker will speak in Standard Sowaár, but the converse is not usually true.

All varieties of Sowaár are written in the Sowaár alphabet, which was originally developed as a phonetic notation system like the IPA. Amísreg spelling is based on Conservative Amísreg.

All Sowaár lects have extensive sandhi systems. The following describes Standard Sowaár sandhi.

:''Main article: [[Sowaár/Morphology]]''

Sowaár is strongly head-marking, like many indigenous languages of North and Central America. More information is conveyed by verbs than in most other languages.  

Sowaár has a large number of noun-like constructions which appear on the surface to be phrases, but which are fixed in both meaning and morphology.  

:'''''Sowaár tasr la'dat'oóweyiid'''''

:Sowaár da-hasr la'-da-t'oó-e-iid

:Sowaár 3PL.AN-for "all directions"-3PL.AN-radiate/REG-REG=NOMZ.AN (REG = TAM for "regularly does something, as in a job")

:''Sowaár Broadcasting Corporation''

:Literal translation: "those who regularly send things out in all directions for the Sowaár people"

Amísreg is non-configurational. Noun phrases are head-final.

*''sriilohóokh'' = 'they pile up forming a line' > ''sriilohóokhin'' = (a type of scale used in Sowaár music)

Sowaár vocabulary is nearly exclusively native. A sparse number of words are from Naquic and Tsimulh languages, and recently, [[Skellan]]. Borrowed words are almost all nouns.

To abbreviate words, Sowaár uses clipping.

Due to the popularity of Sowaár pop culture across the globe, Sowaár is commonly learned by Sowaárophile otakus. Sowaár is considered one of the most daunting languages for speakers of most Northern languages, due to its morphological complexity and high degree of diglossia.

Sowaár poetry uses quantitative meters, like Sanskrit.