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| '''New Urban Sjowaázh''' is an emergent variety of Sjowaázh spoken by the youngest generation (children and teens) of the urban middle class.
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| ==Origins==
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| 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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| ==Phonology==
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| The phonology is similar to High Sjowaázh, with a few differences.
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| *plain unaspirated consonants /p t c k ts tʂ tɕ s ɕ ʂ/ become voiced /b d ɟ g dz dʐ dʑ
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| *Word-initial /sC-/ clusters become /C-/.
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| *'''zh''' is a retroflex approximant.
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| *'''ly''' merges with '''y'''.
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| *'''p''' may be pronounced [f].
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| *Stress accent rather than pitch accent (as in Modern Greek).
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