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'''Kukʉp''' /kukʉp/ (pronounced /kukup/ in True Ongo, also called Pinekatʉ /pine'kakʉ/), is the native language of the Pineti, a Shunfoh culture that exists primarily at sea. In its modern form, it is a Kukʉp-based Shunfoh utyhuflone, heavily saturated with Ongo vocabulary, but also influenced by Buw, Vasále, and Richi. Although Kukʉp is spoken by almost 117,000 people world wide, less than 31,000 of them are native speakers, as the language has found great popularity being used in trade over the last three decades. | |||
'''Kukʉp''' /kukʉp/ is the native language of the Pineti, a Shunfoh culture that exists primarily at sea. | |||
While Kukʉp has a number of features that distinguish it from Ongo, the amount of vocabulary shared allows, in most situations, the languages to be partially mutually intelligible. The usage and education of Kukʉp is seen by some XeShunfoh as controversial, due to a perceived lack of overall cultural unity its continued use displays. Kukʉp is not the only Ongo utyhuflone, but it does have more variance from True Ongo than any other Shunfoh dialect or utyhuflone. The Pineti have showed no signs of reducing or discontinuing its use in favor of True Ongo and some have claimed that its ease of use for the other peoples of the world and its popularity among various major ports of trade has played a major role in gaining XeShunfoh the recognition from the other peoples that they've sought for so long. | |||
==Etymology== | |||
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