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Demotic

noun
1.
A simplified cursive form of the ancient hieratic script.  Synonym: Demotic script.
2.
The modern Greek vernacular.  Synonym: Romaic.
adjective
1.
Of or written in or belonging to the form of modern Greek based on colloquial use.
2.
Of or for the common people.  "Demotic speech" , "A poet with a keen ear for demotic rhythms"



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... on the left branch of the delta of the Nile, 44 m. NE. of Alexandria, famous for the discovery near it by M. Boussard, in 1799, of the Rosetta stone with inscriptions in hieroglyphic, demotic and Greek, and by the help of which archaeologists have been able to interpret the hieroglyphics ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood


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