The Kukkuzi dialect or Kukkusi dialect () is a dialect of

Votic Votic or Votian (, ) , is a Finnic language spoken by the Vots of Ingria, belonging to the Finnic branch of the Uralic languages. Votic is spoken only in Krakolye (now part of Ust-Luga) and Luzhitsy, two villages in Kingiseppsky District in ...

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 (related to Finnish, Ingrian, Karelian and Veps) 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

'here we just for the first time heard, that we are Votians.' 'with a cow'.

References

{{Uralic languages Votians Endangered languages of Europe Finnic languages Indigenous languages of European Russia Ingrian language