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| '''New Urban Sowaár''' is an emergent variety of Sowaár 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 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.
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| ==Phonology==
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| The phonology is based on High Sowaár, with a few differences.
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| *Plain unaspirated consonants become fully voiced.
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| *'''dr tr tr' sr''' merge with '''j c c' x''' into [d͡ʒ t͡ʃ t͡ʃ' ʃ].
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| *'''dlr tlr tlr' łr''' become velar laterals '''gl kl kl' khl'''.
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| *'''nr r''' are much less retroflex than in High Sowaár.
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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 Sjowaár
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| ===Ablaut===
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| New Urban Sjowaár has 40 ablaut classes, compared to High Sowaár's 57.
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| ===Discourse affixes===
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| Discourse affixes are used heavily, unlike in High Sowaár.
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| ==Vocabulary==
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| [[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#Conservative_Alcvean|Skellan Eevo]], but today [[Skellan/Accents#General_Fyxoomian|Fyxoomian Eevo]] is the norm for new borrowings.
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