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  • Demotic (Egyptian) — Demotic Type Abjad augmented by …   Wikipedia

  • Demotic — De*mot ic, a. [Gr. dhmotiko s, fr. dh^mos the people: cf. F. d[ e]motique.] Of or pertaining to the people; popular; common. [1913 Webster] {Demotic alphabet} or {Demotic character}, a form of writing used in Egypt after six or seven centuries… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Demotic alphabet — Demotic De*mot ic, a. [Gr. dhmotiko s, fr. dh^mos the people: cf. F. d[ e]motique.] Of or pertaining to the people; popular; common. [1913 Webster] {Demotic alphabet} or {Demotic character}, a form of writing used in Egypt after six or seven… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Demotic character — Demotic De*mot ic, a. [Gr. dhmotiko s, fr. dh^mos the people: cf. F. d[ e]motique.] Of or pertaining to the people; popular; common. [1913 Webster] {Demotic alphabet} or {Demotic character}, a form of writing used in Egypt after six or seven… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • demotic — ► 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 writing. 2) demotic language. ORIGIN Greek d motikos, from d …   English terms dictionary

  • demotic — [dē mät′ik] adj. [ML demoticus < Gr dēmotikos < dēmotes, one of the people < dēmos: see DEMOCRACY] 1. a) of the people; popular; specif., VERNACULAR (sense 2) b) in or of idiomatic, colloquial, everyday language [a novelist with a good… …   English World dictionary

  • demotic — 1822, from Gk. demotikos of or for the common people, in common use, from demos common people, originally district, from PIE *da mo division, from root *da to divide (see TIDE (Cf. tide)). In contrast to HIERATIC (Cf. hieratic). Originally of the …   Etymology dictionary

  • Writing in Ancient Egypt — Ancient Egyptian writing comprises the variety of different scripts to write the Egyptian language. These are the hieroglyphic, hieratic and demotic scripts, the earliest of which dates to about 3200 BC.HistoryMost surviving texts in the Egyptian …   Wikipedia

  • Demotic Greek — Not to be confused with Demotic (Egyptian). History of the Greek language (see also: Greek alphabet) Proto Greek (c. 3000–1600 BC) Mycenaean …   Wikipedia

  • demotic script —       Egyptian hieroglyphic writing of cursive form that was used in handwritten texts from the early 7th century BC until the 5th century AD. Demotic script derived from the earlier pictographic hieroglyphic inscriptions and the cursive hieratic …   Universalium

  • demotic — 1. adjective a) Of or for the common people. demotic script is a simplified, cursive form of hieroglyphs used in ancient egypt. b) Of, relating to, or written in the vulgar form of ancient Egyptian hieratic writing. demotic Greek …   Wiktionary

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