Kukkuzi dialect or Kukkusi dialect (
Rus
Rus or RUS may refer to:
People and places
* Rus (surname), a Romanian-language surname
* East Slavic historical territories and peoples (). See Names of Rus', Russia and Ruthenia
** Rus' people, the people of Rus'
** Rus' territories
*** Kievan ...
: Куровицы) is a dialect of
Votic
Votic, or Votian (''vaďďa tšeeli'', ''maatšeeli'') vɑːdʔda ˈtʃɨlɨ, mɑːt.ʃɨlɨ is the language spoken by the Votes of Ingria, belonging to the Finnic branch of the Uralic languages. Votic is spoken only in Krakolye and Luzhits ...
spoken in
Kukkuzi 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 existing speakers have been located in 2006.
Classification
According to E.B. Markus the Kukkuzi dialect has izhorian like vocabulary and phonetics, while containing Votic grammar which is a result of an incomplete language switch to
Izhorian
The Izhorians (russian: Ижо́ра; ижо́рцы; fi, inkerikot; et, isurid; sg. ''ižoralain'', ''inkeroin'', ''ižora'', ''ingermans'', ''ingers'', ''ingrian'', pl. ''ižoralaizet''), along with the Votes, are a Finnic indigenous peopl ...
. However some linguists have claimed it rather as 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
Tiit-Rein Viitso (4 March 1938 – 2 December 2022) was an Estonian linguist.
In 1962, he graduated from Tartu State University in Estonian philology. From 1965 to 1973 he worked at Tartu State University's Computational Centre (). During 1973 ...
, the Kukkuzi dialect was originally a Northern
Finnic dialect (related to Finnish,
Ingrian,
Karelian and
Veps) that was influenced by Votic and later the Lower Luga dialect of Ingrian.
Features
* The sound õ exists in Votic but is absent in the Kukkuzi dialect.
* Some other features of the Kukkuzi dialect are the absence of the sound changes k > tš and s > ''ťś.''
* The sound k sometimes becomes k' after a front vowel.
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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'
References
Votians
Extinct languages of Europe
Finnic languages