Of, relating to, or written in the form of modern vernacular Greek.
demotic Greek
The demotic Egyptian script, used from c. 650 BCE to 452 CE.
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).
The demotic Egyptian language, spoken from c. 650 BCE to 400 BCE.
First attested in 1822, from Ancient Greek δημοτικός (dēmotikós, “common”), from δημότης (dēmótēs, “commoner”), from δῆμος (dêmos, “the common people”).
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