Kenzi

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Kenzi is a Nubian language spoken in southern Egypt, closely related to Nobiin and part of the broader Nubian language family along the Nile.

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Kenzi canonical 5

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Nubian language
language
natural language
closelyRelatedTo Nobiin
country Egypt
endangeredStatus definitely endangered
hasAlternativeName Kenuzi
Kenuzi-Dongola (for the broader variety)
Mattokki
hasConsonantInventoryType moderate-sized consonant inventory typical of Nubian languages
hasContactWith Egyptian Arabic
hasDialectContinuumWith Dongolawi
hasGeneticRelationship related to Old Nubian
hasHistoricalRegion Lower Nubia
hasLanguageCodeISO639_3 xnz
hasLoanwordsFrom Arabic
hasMorphologyType agglutinative
hasNeighborLanguage Arabic
Nobiin
hasPhylum Nilo-Saharan languages
surface form: Nilo-Saharan (proposed)
hasSociolinguisticStatus minority language in Egypt
hasSpeakerCommunity Nubian minority in southern Egypt
hasTypologicalFeature postpositions rather than prepositions
rich case marking on nouns
suffixal inflection on verbs
hasVowelInventoryType vowel length contrast
hasWordOrder SOV (subject–object–verb)
isDistinctFrom Dongolawi
Nobiin
languageFamily Nubians
surface form: Nubian
macroArea Africa
partOf Eastern Sudanic languages
Nilo-Saharan languages
Nubian languages
surface form: Nubian language family
region Aswan Governorate
Nubian settlements along the Nile in southern Egypt
villages north of Aswan
spokenAlong Nile
surface form: Nile River
spokenBy Nubians
surface form: Kenzi Nubians
spokenIn Egypt
Upper Egypt
surface form: southern Egypt
spokenNear Lake Nasser region
subclassOf Nubian languages
surface form: Nile Nubian language
threatenedBy Arabic language shift
usedFor everyday communication within Kenzi Nubian communities
usedIn folklore and songs
oral tradition
writingSystem Arabic script (non-standard, occasionally used)

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