Kukkuzi dialect


The Kukkuzi dialect or Kukkusi dialect is a dialect of Votic spoken in. The Kukkuzi dialect has been heavily influenced by Ingrian.
There exists a recording session of the Kukkuzi dialect, which was made in 2008–2012. A Kukkuzi dialect dictionary has been made in 1980. The Kukkuzi dialect has been declared to be dead since the 1970s, however three speakers were located in 2006.

Classification

According to E.B. Markus the Kukkuzi dialect has Ingrian-like vocabulary and phonetics, while containing Votic grammar which is a result of an incomplete language switch to Ingrian. However some linguists have claimed that it is a dialect of Ingrian and some classify it as a mixed language In the past Kukkuzi has also sometimes been classified as a Finnish dialect.
According to Tiit-Rein Viitso, the Kukkuzi dialect was originally a Northern Finnic dialect that was influenced by Votic and later the Lower Luga dialect of Ingrian.

Phonology

  • The sound exists in Votic but is absent in the Kukkuzi dialect.
  • Some other features of the Kukkuzi dialect are the absence of the sound changes > and s > ťś.
  • The sound k sometimes becomes k' after a front vowel.

    Samples

tässä müü vassa ensimmäissä kertaa kuulimma, että müü oomma neitä vad'd'alaisiita.
'here we just for the first time heard, that we are Votians.'
lehmääk'ää 'with a cow'.