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Writing in Egypt: Demotic. Demotic derives from the Greek word 'demotikos' (popular); the Greek word is first used by Herodotus to describe the cursive writing system of the ...
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Demotic (from δημοτικά dimotika "popular") refers to either the ancient Egyptian script derived from northern forms of hieratic used in the Delta, or the stage of the ...
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demotic /di mott ik/ • adjective 1 (of language) used by ordinary people; colloquial. 2 relating to demotic Greek. • noun 1 the form of modern Greek used in everyday speech and ...

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Demotic, final cursive stage of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing, used from the 7th century bc to the 5th century ad, in business and literary texts. The Rosetta Stone is inscribed in both hieroglyphs and demotic, with a Greek translation. During the Ptolemaic period (304-30 bc) the demotic script was replaced by Greek. The term demotic Egyptian refers to the prevailing Egyptian literary language of the same centuries (see Egyptian Language). Demotic Greek refers to modern spoken Greek and to a modern Greek literary style based on the spoken language (see Greek Language).