Fromr(ꜣ)(“mouth, speech”) +‎n(j)(“of”) +‎kmt(“Egypt”).

• (modern Egyptological)IPA^(key): /ɛr ɛn kɛmɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization:er en kemet

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1. (rare) theEgyptian language[Middle Kingdom literature]

This term is only attested in versions of theStory of Sinuhe. Despite its presentation in popular literature as the basic native term for the Egyptian language, there is little evidence that this term had any particularly wide currency, or was anything but anad hoc creation by the author ofSinuhe.

Alternative hieroglyphic writings ofr n kmt  

r n kmt

• (Late Egyptian)mdwt kmt
• (Late Egyptian)mdwt rmṯ n kmt

• “rʾ-n-km.t (lemma ID 92900)”, inThesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig,2004–26 July 2023
• Erman, Adolf;Grapow, Hermann (1928),Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag,→ISBN,page391.25
• Erman, Adolf;Grapow, Hermann (1931),Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[3], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag,→ISBN,page127.15

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