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demotic::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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| Synonyms | romaic |
| Type of | modern greek, new greek |
demotic::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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| Synonyms | demotic script |
| Type of | hieratic, hieratic script |
demotic::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
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demotic entertainments.
demotic speech.
a poet with a keen ear for demotic rhythms.
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Examples of demotic
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Salinger's novels are characterised by a joyous appreciation of demotic language.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Demotic Greek has officially been taught in monotonic Greek script since 1982.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Written literature reflecting this demotic Greek begins to appear around 1100.
From the en.wikipedia.org
It excluded any non-Greek vocabulary but ended up being discarded for demotic.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The second is the effortful demotic in which a lot of the script is couched.
From the independent.co.uk
Many of them served as glosses to original hieratic and demotic equivalents.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Neither she nor her parents understood German, and he disliked speaking demotic Greek.
From the nytimes.com
The language here is the right combination of the snobbish and the demotic.
From the guardian.co.uk
Like his fellow Virginian, Thomas Jef ferson, he had doubts about a truly demotic society.
From the time.com
- A simplified cursive form of the ancient hieratic script; "Demotic script was eventually replaced by Greek"
- Of or written in or belonging to the form of modern Greek based on colloquial use
- Of or for the common people; "demotic entertainments"; "demotic speech"; "a poet with a keen ear for demotic rhythms"
- Romaic: the modern Greek vernacular
- Didymu00F3teicho (Greek: u0394u03B9u03B4u03C5u03BCu03CCu03C4u03B5u03B9u03C7u03BF, ) is a town located on the eastern edge of the Evros regional unit of East Macedonia and Thrace, in northeastern Greece. It is the seat of the municipality of the same name. The town (pop...
- Language as spoken by the common people; Of or for the common people; Of, relating to, or written in the vulgar form of ancient Egyptian hieratic writing; Of, relating to, or written in the form of modern vernacular Greek
- A form of ancient Egyptian writing which was developed in the 7th century BC and used for everyday writing in the Late and Graeco-Roman periods.
- (1) writing "of the people", (modern Greek, as opposed to classical Greek), (2) popular form of Egyptian writing simplified from hieratic.
- A word of Greek origin, meaning people s scripts . It developed from the hieratic during the 8th-7th century BC and soon replaced it. Due to its abbreviations it is very hard to read.
