Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word DEMOTIC

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Definitions of DEMOTIC

1. Of or for the common people.
2. Of, relating to, or written in the ancient Egyptian script that developed from Lower Egyptian hieratic writing starting from around 650 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.
3. Of, relating to, or written in the form of modern vernacular Greek.
4. (linguistics) Language as spoken or written by the common people.
5. The demotic Egyptian script, used from c. 650 BCE to 452 CE.
6. (linguistics) The demotic Egyptian language, spoken from c. 650 BCE to 400 BCE.

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