Kukkuzi dialect
Dialect of Votic spoken in a part of Russia
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The Kukkuzi dialect or Kukkusi dialect (Куровицы) is a dialect of Votic spoken in Kukkuzi.[2] The Kukkuzi dialect has been heavily influenced by Ingrian.[3]
There exists a recording session of the Kukkuzi dialect, which was made in 2008–2012.[4] A Kukkuzi dialect dictionary has been made in 1980.[5] The Kukkuzi dialect has been declared to be dead since the 1970s,[2] however three speakers were located in 2006.[1]
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.[6] However some linguists have claimed that it is a dialect of Ingrian[7] and some classify it as a mixed language[8] In the past Kukkuzi has also sometimes been classified as a Finnish dialect.[9]
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.[10][11]
Phonology
- The sound ⟨õ⟩ exists in Votic but is absent in the Kukkuzi dialect.[12]
- Some other features of the Kukkuzi dialect are the absence of the sound changes ⟨k⟩ > ⟨tš⟩ and s > ťś.[13]
- The sound k sometimes becomes k' after a front vowel.[14][clarification needed]