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Kenuzi is classified as a Nubian language. It is mostly spoken by the Kenuzi tribe in Egypt (Fernea, 1966). Most of the Kenuzi speaking people live in the city of Kom Ombo in the Aswan Governorate of Egypt. However, Kenuzi is also spoken in some parts of Arica like Libya and Sudan (Spaulding, 2006). Kenzi has many other names it goes by, which are Kenuz, Kunuzi, Kenzi, Nubian (Kunuz), and Kenzy. The Kenuzi language was very prevalent before the 15th century (Kirwan, 1974). The people who spoke Kenuzi were mostly of Christianic faith until Islam spread around the 15th century (Fahim, 1973). When Islam spread, so did the Arabic language which resulted in the use of Kenuzi decreasing. Kenuzi is now a threatened language that has about 50,000 native speakers worldwide. Kenuzi is very similar to the Nubian dialect called Dongolawi (Rouchdy, 2017). The language’s main form of writing is Meriotic which is made up of twenty-three characters and includes the world’s first written punctuation marks (Abdel-Hafiz, 1989).