Demotic

See also: demotic

English

Proper noun

Demotic

1. The demotic Egyptian script, used from c. 650 BCE to 452 CE.
   • 2020, Vanessa Davies, ‎ Dimitri Laboury, The Oxford Handbook of Egyptian Epigraphy and Palaeography, page 611:

     Regarding the ranges of these palaeographic areas, the terms mentioned might again be misleading to a nonadept, who, for example, has to know that the Delta is mostly uncharted territory in regard to Demotic palaeography (due to the lack of sources from this area).

2. (linguistics) The demotic Egyptian language, spoken from c. 650 BCE to 400 BCE.

References

• Demotic (Egyptian) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia