Today, a few local people whose fathers or mothers were Sowa speakers still remember parts of the language, although none speak it fluently.

A couple, including Isaiah Tabi Vahka of Waterfall Village and Adam Bulesisbwat of Lesuubelakan, compiled short written notes on Sowa in an attempt to ensure that the language was not lost.

Andrew Gray, a British schoolteacher at Ranwadi College, worked with speakers' children in the late 2000s to try to reconstruct the basics of the language.

There is talk of reviving Sowa, although this is not a high priority for most local people, and records are insufficient to allow a fully authentic restoration of the language.

However, in their 2001 survey, Lynch & Crowley did not recognise Sowa as a language, noting that Tryon's data suffered from significant margins of error.

occurred as a result of the dropping of r at the ends of words, and are shown to have been distinct from short vowels by minimal pairs such as me "to be red" and mee (< mer) "to be black".

Some of these are difficult to reconstruct, due to inconsistencies within and between sources, but a plausible set is: Dual (two-person) forms incorporating a particle ra also existed, as in Ske, but are not well remembered.

Negative phrases began with the word atna ("absent"): In the imperative, verbs could occur on their own (unlike in Apma and Ske, in which they are always preceded by a subject pronoun).