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   demotic

   /dɪˈmɒtɪk/

   adjective

   • 1. denoting or relating to the kind of language used by ordinary people; colloquial: "a demotic idiom"
   • ▪ relating to or denoting the form of modern Greek used in everyday speech and writing.
   • ▪ relating to or denoting a simplified, cursive form of ancient Egyptian script, dating from c. 650 bc and replaced by Greek in the Ptolemaic period.

   noun

   • 1. ordinary colloquial speech: "he blinked in mild surprise at this uncharacteristic leap into the demotic"
   • ▪ demotic Greek.
   • ▪ demotic Egyptian script.

   Word Origin late 18th century (in the sense ‘simplified form of ancient Egyptian script’): from Greek dēmotikos ‘popular’, from dēmotēs ‘one of the people’, from dēmos ‘the people’.

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