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| '''New Urban Sjowaázh''' is an emergent variety of Sowaázh spoken by urban middle-class children and teens.
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| ==Origins==
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| Compared to other groups, urban women speakers of Sowaázh 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 Sowaázh.
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| ==Phonology==
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| The phonology is based on High Sowaázh, with a few differences.
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| *Plain unaspirated consonants /p t c k ts tʂ tɕ/ become fully voiced [b d dʑ g dz dʐ dʑ].
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| *Word-initial /sC-/ clusters become voiceless unaspirated stops.
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| *'''gy ky ky' ''' merge with '''jy cy cy''''.
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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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| ==Morphology==
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| Similar to High Sjowaázh
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| ===Ablaut===
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| New Urban Sjowaázh has 40 ablaut classes, compared to High Sowaázh's 57.
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| ==Vocabulary==
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| Skellan loanwords are much more common than in High Sowaázh.
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