Az-Zainiya (Arabic: الزينيه, Coptic: ⲡⲓⲥⲟⲗⲥⲉⲗpi-Solsel "the adornment") is a name given to two villages in the Luxor Governorate, Egypt – az-Zainiya Bahari (Arabic: الزينيه بحري, Coptic: ⲡⲓⲥⲟⲗⲥⲉⲗ ⲡⲉⲙϩⲓⲧpi-Solsel Pemhit) and az-Zainiya Qibli (Arabic: الزينيه قبلي, Coptic: ⲡⲓⲥⲟⲗⲥⲉⲗ ⲫⲣⲏⲥpi-Solsel Phres). The two villages were one of the last places where a variant of a colloquial Coptic language was spoken.[1]
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^Worrell, Vycichl (1937). "Popular traditions of the Coptic language". The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures. 54 (1/4): 1–11. doi:10.1086/370517. JSTOR529250. S2CID170527828.