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What is the name of the only surviving Nubian language spoken in southern Egypt, a descendant of Old Nubian, which was written in a script derived from Coptic and Greek?

Kenzi (or Mattokki), spoken by the Kenzi Nubians resettled around Kom Ombo after the Aswan High Dam flooded their ancestral villages, is the last surviving northern Nubian language — it descends directly from Old Nubian, the written language of the medieval Christian kingdoms of Nobatia and Makuria.

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