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Demotic (Egyptian) — Demotic Type Abjad augmented by … Wikipedia
Demotic — (Greek for of the people or folkish ) may refer to: Demotic Greek, a variety of the Greek language Demotic (Egyptian), a script and stage of the Egyptian language This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an … Wikipedia
Egyptian language — Infobox Language name=Egyptian nativename= transl|egy|r n km.t r:Z1 n km m t:O49 region=Ancient Egypt extinct=evolved into Demotic by 600 BC, into Coptic by AD 200, and was extinct (not spoken as a day to day language) by the 17th century. It… … 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 — [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
Egyptian script — may mean: * Egyptian hieroglyphs * Egyptian hieratic * Egyptian demotic … Wikipedia
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
Egyptian hieroglyphs — A section of the Papyrus of Ani showing cursive hieroglyphs … Wikipedia
Egyptian language — Extinct Afro Asiatic language of the Nile River valley. Its very long history comprises five periods: Old Egyptian (с 3000–с 2200 BC), best exemplified by a corpus of religious inscriptions known as the Pyramid Texts and a group of… … Universalium
