demotic

Etymology
First attested in 1822, from, from , from.

Adjective

 * 1) Of or for the common people.
 * 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.
 * Of, relating to, or written in the form of modern vernacular Greek.
 * 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.
 * Of, relating to, or written in the form of modern vernacular Greek.
 * 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.
 * Of, relating to, or written in the form of modern vernacular Greek.
 * Of, relating to, or written in the form of modern vernacular Greek.
 * Of, relating to, or written in the form of modern vernacular Greek.
 * Of, relating to, or written in the form of modern vernacular Greek.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: на простолюдието
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:, demoottinen,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Irish: coiteann
 * Romanian: demotic
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish:


 * Czech:
 * Finnish: demoottinen
 * French:
 * German:
 * Irish: coiteann
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: demótico
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish: demootinen
 * French:
 * Greek: ,
 * Irish: coiteann
 * Russian: димоти́ческий
 * Spanish: demótico

Noun

 * 1)  Language as spoken or written by the common people.
 * 2) * 2010,, accents map
 * Note the intrusion into British demotic (“me and Cheryl were having”) of the valley-girl quotative be, like.

Translations

 * German:

Etymology
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