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Meaning
Adj
●
Of or for the common people.
●
In Egypt:
Of,
relating
to, or
written
in the
ancient
Egyptian
script
that developed from Lower Egyptian
hieratic
writing
starting
from around 650 BCE and was
chiefly
used to
write
the Demotic
phase
of the Egyptian language, with
simplified
and
cursive
characters
that
no longer
corresponded
directly
to their
hieroglyphic
precursors.
●
In Greek:
Of,
relating
to, or
written
in the form of
modern
vernacular
Greek.
Noun
●
In Linguistics:
Language as spoken or
written
by the common people.
Name
●
The
demotic
Egyptian
script
, used from
c
. 650 BCE to 452 CE.
●
The
demotic
Egyptian language, spoken from
c
. 650 BCE to 400 BCE.
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