The Kukkuzi dialect or Kukkusi dialect (Куровицы) is a dialect of Votic language spoken in .
There exists a recording session of the Kukkuzi dialect, which was made in 2008–2012.
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 language.
However some linguists have claimed that it is a dialect of Ingrian
[Jokipii, Mauno: "Itämerensuomalaiset, Heimokansojen historiaa ja kohtaloita". Jyväskylä: Atena kustannus Oy, 1995. ] 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 languages dialect (related to Finnish, Ingrian language, Karelian and Veps language) that was influenced by Votic and later the Lower Luga dialect of Ingrian.
Phonology
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The sound exists in Votic but is absent in the Kukkuzi dialect.
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Some other features of the Kukkuzi dialect are the absence of the sound changes > and s > ťś.
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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'.
