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-'''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==
-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==
-The phonology is based on High Sowaár, with a few differences.
-*Plain unaspirated consonants become fully voiced.
-*'''dr tr tr' ''' are affricate [d͡ʐ t͡ʂ t͡ʂ'].
-*'''dlr tlr tlr' łr''' become velar laterals '''gl kl kl' khl'''.
-*'''nr r''' are much less retroflex than in High Sowaár.
-*'''p''' may be pronounced [f].
-*'''w''' may be pronounced [v] or [ʋ].
-*Stress accent rather than pitch accent (as in Modern Greek).
-==Morphology==
-Similar to High Sowaár
-===Ablaut===
-New Urban Sowaár has 40 ablaut classes, compared to High Sowaár's 57.
-===Discourse affixes===
-Discourse affixes are used heavily, unlike in High Sowaár.
-==Vocabulary==
-[[Eevo]] loanwords are much more common in New Urban Sowaár 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#Alcvean|Skellan Eevo]], but today [[Skellan/Accents#General_Fyxoomian|Fyxoomian Eevo]] is the norm for new borrowings.