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Demotic or demotic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Demotic may refer to: Demotic Greek, the modern vernacular form of the Greek language Demotic Egyptian
Demotic
Ancient Egyptian script
Demotic (from Ancient Greek: δημοτικός dēmotikós, 'popular') is the ancient Egyptian script derived from northern forms of hieratic used in the Nile Delta
Demotic_Egyptian_script
Vernacular form of Modern Greek
Demotic Greek (Greek: Δημοτική Γλώσσα, Dimotikí Glóssa [ðimotiˈci ˈɣlo.sa], lit. 'language of the people') is the standard spoken language of Greece in
Demotic_Greek
Ancient Egyptian prophetic text
The Demotic Chronicle is an ancient Egyptian prophetic text. The work is intended to provide a chronicle of the 28th, 29th and 30th dynasties – thus the
Demotic_Chronicle
Period of the Egyptian language
Demotiс Egyptian language was the state of the Egyptian language from the seventh century BC to the fifth century AD. The formation and development of
Demotic_Egyptian_language
Egyptian stele with three versions of a 196 BC decree
The top and middle texts are in Ancient Egyptian using hieroglyphic and Demotic scripts, respectively, while the bottom is in Ancient Greek. The decree
Rosetta_Stone
19th and 20th century dispute about popular and learned language varieties of Greek
zítima) was a dispute about whether the vernacular of the Greek people (Demotic Greek) or a cultivated literary language based on Ancient Greek (Katharevousa)
Greek_language_question
Extinct language in Egypt
the time of classical antiquity, the spoken language had evolved into Demotic. By the Roman and Byzantine eras, the language later further diversified
Egyptian_language
Dialects and varieties of the Greek language spoken in the modern era
include Demotic, Katharevousa, Pontic, Cappadocian, Mariupolitan, Grico, Calabrian, Yevanic, Tsakonian and Greco-Australian. Strictly speaking, Demotic or
Modern_Greek
Egyptian forms of writing, which included the hieroglyphic, hieratic and demotic scripts, ceased to be understood in the fourth and fifth centuries AD,
Decipherment of ancient Egyptian scripts
Decipherment_of_ancient_Egyptian_scripts
Cursive writing system used in ancient Egyptian
language from its development in the third millennium BCE until the rise of Demotic in the mid-first millennium BCE. It was primarily written in ink with a
Hieratic
Script used for writing the Coptic language
Greek alphabet was used to transcribe Demotic texts, with the aim of recording the correct pronunciation of Demotic. As early as the sixth century BC and
Coptic_script
Political ideology emphasising the "common people"
14–15. Paterson, Lindsay (2000). "Civil Society: Enlightenment Ideal and Demotic Nationalism". Social Text. 18 (4): 109–116. doi:10.1215/01642472-18-4_65-109
Populism
Aramaic text in demotic script
Egyptian papyrus from the third century BC containing Aramaic texts in demotic Egyptian script. The 35 texts date to the eighth and seventh centuries
Papyrus_Amherst_63
Last known inscription written in Egyptian hieroglyphs (394 AD)
"for all time and eternity". The inscription also contains a text in the demotic script, with similar content. The temple at Philae was a prominent site
Graffito_of_Esmet-Akhom
Demotic language dictionary project
The Chicago Demotic Dictionary (CDD) or The Demotic Dictionary of the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures of the University of Chicago is a project
Chicago_Demotic_Dictionary
Ancient Egyptian writing system
used for religious literature on papyrus and wood. The later hieratic and demotic Egyptian scripts were derived from hieroglyphic writing, as was the Proto-Sinaitic
Egyptian_hieroglyphs
Former prestige form of the Modern Greek language
and a compromise between Ancient Greek and the contemporary vernacular, Demotic Greek. Originally, it was widely used for both literary and official purposes
Katharevousa
French classical scholar, decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphs (1790–1832)
prodigy in philology, giving his first public paper on the decipherment of Demotic in his late teens. As a young man he was renowned in scientific circles
Jean-François_Champollion
Latest stage of the Egyptian language
of the Greek alphabet with seven additional letters borrowed from the Demotic Egyptian script. The major Coptic dialects are Sahidic, Bohairic, Akhmimic
Coptic_language
Body of papyri from Graeco-Roman Egypt
Graeco-Roman Egypt, written mostly in ancient Greek (but also in Old Coptic, Demotic, etc.), which each contain a number of magical spells, formulae, hymns
Greek_Magical_Papyri
National identity based form of nationalism
S2CID 144080330. Paterson, Lindsay (2000). "Civil Society: Enlightenment Ideal and Demotic Nationalism". Social Text. 18 (4): 109–116. doi:10.1215/01642472-18-4_65-109
Territorial_nationalism
Pharaoh of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC
9–11, 20). The refusal of Ptolemaic rulers to speak the native language, Demotic Egyptian, is why Koine Greek was used along with Late Egyptian on official
Cleopatra
Dialects and differences between the written standard and spoken speech
spoken Demotic. According to Manolis Triantafyllides, the modern Greek language of the beginning of the 19th century, as used in the demotic poetry of
Varieties_of_Modern_Greek
Egyptian pharaoh from 404 to 399 BC
recording that he reigned for 6 years. An ancient Egyptian prophetic text, the Demotic Chronicle (3rd/2nd century BC), states: The first ruler who came after
Amyrtaeus
Personal names of modern Greeks
in official papers, while the demotic form or the shortened/diminutive forms are the forms used in everyday life. Demotic forms tend to demonstrate endings
Greek_name
2015 American film
Retrieved March 29, 2018. Collins, Kathleen (2018). "Comedian Hosts and the Demotic Turn". Podcasting. Springer International Publishing. pp. 227–250. doi:10
Misery_Loves_Comedy_(film)
Greek writer and philosopher (1883–1957)
created to bridge Ancient Greek with Modern, Demotic Greek, in order to "purify" Demotic Greek. The use of Demotic, among writers, gradually started to gain
Nikos_Kazantzakis
Drawing or light engraving made with a point on a hard support
Egyptian Demotic was used only for ostraca, mummy labels, subscriptions to Greek texts, and graffiti. The last dated example of Egyptian Demotic is from
Graffito_(archaeology)
Egyptian hieroglyph
additionally uses of 'Horus of the Two Lands' .) In the Demotic (Egyptian) text of the Rosetta Stone, the demotic for Egypt is 'Kmi' . There are three uses of the
Km and Km.t (Kemet) (hieroglyphs)
Km_and_Km.t_(Kemet)_(hieroglyphs)
Decree passed by a council of priests, inscribed on the Rosetta Stone
in 196 BC at Memphis, it was written in Egyptian hieroglyphs, Egyptian Demotic and Ancient Greek. It mentions the Egyptian rebellion against the Greek
Rosetta_Stone_decree
Sixth letter in the Greek alphabet
/ˈzeɪtə/ ; uppercase Ζ, lowercase ζ; (Ancient Greek and Katharevousa: ζῆτα, Demotic Greek: ζήτα, classical [d͡zɛ̌ːta] or [zdɛ̌ːta] zē̂ta; Modern Greek: [ˈzita]
Zeta
Two alphasyllabaric scripts for the extinct Meroitic language
the Kingdom of Kush. The two scripts are Meroitic Cursive, derived from Demotic Egyptian, and Meroitic Hieroglyphs, derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Meroitic_script
5th- to 4th-century BCE Egyptian texts
and Aswan, which yielded hundreds of papyri and ostraca in hieratic and demotic Egyptian, Aramaic, Koine Greek, Latin and Coptic, spanning a period of
Elephantine papyri and ostraca
Elephantine_papyri_and_ostraca
Fertile area in a desert environment
a direct borrowing from Demotic Egyptian. The word for oasis in the latter-attested Coptic language (the descendant of Demotic Egyptian) is wahe or ouahe
Oasis
Ancient papyrus collection
described as "very decayed, powdery and worthless"; and 237 mainly in Demotic Egyptian and Greek, but including a few in Coptic, Arabic and Latin. Astarte
Amherst_papyri
Traditional peninsular region in Greece
peninsula was known as the Morea, a name still in colloquial use in its demotic form. The peninsula is divided among three administrative regions: most
Peloponnese
German Egyptologist and Demotic Language specialist (born 1966)
10 June 1966 in Husum, Schleswig-Holstein) is a German Egyptologist and Demotic Language specialist. He studied Egyptology, Semitic and Biblical Archaeology
Joachim_Friedrich_Quack
Ways to convert text in Ancient Egyptian language into modern alphabetic symbols
alphabetic symbols representing uniliteral hieroglyphs or their hieratic and demotic counterparts. This process facilitates the publication of texts where the
Transliteration of Ancient Egyptian
Transliteration_of_Ancient_Egyptian
Literature written in the Egyptian language
Egyptians used three forms of writing: Hieroglyphs, Hieratic, and later Demotic. Hieroglyphs were used for monuments and, in cursive form, for funerary
Ancient_Egyptian_literature
Archaeological site in Egypt
Egypt–Mesopotamia relations Great Royal Wives List Society Calendar Language Demotic Hieratic Hieroglyphs Cursive hieroglyphs Military Scribes Funerary practices
Labyrinth_of_Egypt
Ancient Egyptian prince and priest
renewed their funerary cults. Posterity had transmitted his renown, and the Demotic tales that were spun around his memory depicted him and his fictional adversary
Khaemweset
Trilingual decree from ancient Egypt
Egypt. It was written in three writing systems: Egyptian hieroglyphs, demotic, and koine Greek, on several ancient Egyptian memorial stones, or steles
Decree_of_Canopus
Script used to write the Greek language
shortly afterwards. The Coptic alphabet adds eight letters derived from Demotic. It is still used today, mostly in Egypt, to write Coptic, the liturgical
Greek_alphabet
German Egyptologist (1870–1930)
1930, Munich) was a German Egyptologist. He specialized in analyses of Demotic and hieratic text. Spiegelberg grew up as the second oldest of four brothers
Wilhelm_Spiegelberg
Demotists are Egyptologists who specialize in the study of the Demotic language and field of Demotic Studies. Although a practitioner of the disciplined study
List_of_Egyptologists
Christian riots in Greece in 1901
reacted by banning any translation of the Bible into any form of modern demotic Greek, and by forbidding the employment of demoticist teachers, not just
Gospel_riots
Egyptian pharaoh
of his reign. He appears to have died before 197 BC.[citation needed] A demotic document by Harpaesis son of Thotortaios is dated to the Year 1 of the
Horwennefer
Marks added to letters in Greek
in primary schools where instruction was in Demotic Greek. Following the official adoption of the demotic form of the language, the monotonic orthography
Greek_diacritics
English polymath (1773–1829)
stressing the importance of the demotic text in trying to read the inscriptions, but he wrongly believed that demotic was entirely alphabetic. By 1814
Thomas_Young_(scientist)
Name given to many ancient Egyptian texts
text from the Ptolemaic period "The Ancient Egyptian Book of Thoth". This Demotic text, known from more than forty fragmentary copies, consists of a dialogue
Book_of_Thoth
All known writing up to 300 CE
original on 2023-04-30. Retrieved 2023-05-05. The Chicago Demotic Dictionary, in which the Demotic texts were published between 1955 and 1979, with the exception
Ancient_text_corpora
Demotic Egyptian story
The Tale of Setne Khamwas and Si-Osire (also known as Setne II) is a Demotic Egyptian story attested on papyrus in Roman Egypt. Setne (loosely based on
Setne_Khamwas_and_Si-Osire
Standardized register of Turkish in the Ottoman Empire
continued to use kaba Türkçe ("raw/vulgar Turkish"; compare Vulgar Latin and Demotic Greek), which used far fewer foreign loanwords and is the basis of the
Ottoman_Turkish
Ethnic Greeks native to Asia Minor
significant populations Historically Asia Minor, present day Greece Languages Demotic Greek Asia Minor Greek (including Cappadocian and Pontic Greek) Propontis
Asia_Minor_Greeks
Variety of modern Greek
Pontic Greek is not completely mutually intelligible with the standard Demotic Greek spoken in mainland Greece today. Pontic also contains influences
Pontic_Greek
Russian-born French philologist
France. He was of Greek descent. He was also a writer and a promoter of Demotic Greek. Psycharis was born on 15 May 1854 in Odessa (in modern-day Ukraine
Ioannis_Psycharis
Đuống - Vietnamese "river" sông, followed by a fully local Vietnamese demotic name Đuống sông Thiên Đức - Vietnamese "river" sông followed by a formal
Place_names_of_Vietnam
Unicode character block
Meroitic Cursive is a Unicode block containing demotic-style characters for writing the Meroitic language. The following Unicode-related documents record
Meroitic Cursive (Unicode block)
Meroitic_Cursive_(Unicode_block)
Ancient Egyptian goddess
fertility. She is also known as Opet. At Karnak she is called Ipet, and in the Demotic Magical Papyrus, she is called Apet, the mother of fire. She is depicted
Ipy_(goddess)
of the better known individual papyri written in hieroglyphs, hieratic, demotic or in ancient Greek. Excluded are papyri found abroad or containing Biblical
List of papyri from ancient Egypt
List_of_papyri_from_ancient_Egypt
Earliest stage of Coptic
Coptic". Generally, it can be said that Old Coptic texts use more letters of Demotic derivation than later literary Coptic. They lack the consistent script
Old_Coptic
Bread used in Eastern Orthodox rituals
A prosphora (Greek: προσφορά, offering, or in Demotic Greek πρόσφορον) is a small loaf of leavened bread used in Orthodox Christian, Eastern Lutheran
Prosphora
Community restriction of languages or dialects to specific settings
daily life. Other examples include literary Katharevousa (H) versus spoken Demotic Greek (L); Indonesian, with its bahasa baku (H) and bahasa gaul (L) forms;
Diglossia
Handwritten Egyptian hieroglyphs
hieroglyphs were mainly only used in sacralised contexts. Hieroglyphs Hieratic Demotic Allen, James P. (2014). Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language
Cursive_hieroglyphs
Set of letters used to write a given language
non-alphabetic Egyptian hieroglyphs‡ 32nd c. BCE Hieratic‡ 32nd c. BCE Demotic‡ 7th c. BCE Meroitic 3rd c. BCE Proto-Sinaitic‡ 19th c. BCE Ugaritic 15th
Alphabet
City in Egypt
significant centre of the cult of the crocodile god Sobek (borrowed from the Demotic pronunciation as Koine Greek: Σοῦχος Soûkhos, and then into Latin as Suchus)
Faiyum
Oval enclosing hieroglyphs of a royal name in Ancient Egypt
vertical line at the end (in the direction of reading). The succeeding Demotic script reduces the cartouche to a pair of brackets and a vertical line
Cartouche
Ancient Egyptian child deity
quarries of Gabal El Haridi and Ptolemais Hermiou (Arabic: al-Mansha), Demotic (Egyptian) rock inscriptions mentioning Kolanthes have been found. Other
Kolanthes
h̨ H with ogonek Avestan transliteration H̭ h̭ H with circumflex below Demotic Egyptian transliteration H̱ ẖ H with line below Arabic transliteration
List_of_Latin-script_letters
Country in Southeastern Europe
Cyrillization, Romanization (Greeklish) and numerals Greek language (Demotic, Katharevousa) and dialects (Cappadocian, Cretan, Cypriot, Greco-Australian
Greece
River in Greece
The Ladon (Ancient Greek and Katharevousa: Λάδων, Ládōn; Demotic Greek: Λάδωνας, Ládōnas) is a river in the Peloponnese peninsula of Greece. It features
Ladon_(river)
Egyptology. He worked with Francis Llewellyn Griffith on manuscripts in demotic. He also assisted James Quibell on an excavation at the Monastery of Saint
Henry Francis Herbert Thompson
Henry_Francis_Herbert_Thompson
Writing systems used before the Latin alphabet in Iberia
non-alphabetic Egyptian hieroglyphs‡ 32nd c. BCE Hieratic‡ 32nd c. BCE Demotic‡ 7th c. BCE Meroitic 3rd c. BCE Proto-Sinaitic‡ 19th c. BCE Ugaritic 15th
Paleohispanic_scripts
Swiss Egyptologist and Assyriologist
Teil der dreisprachigen Inschrift von Rosette. In German. (English: The demotic language side of the three languages inscribed in the Rosetta Stone).
Johann_Jakob_Hess
Ferryman of Hades in Greek mythology
Bibliography Bzinkowski, Michal (2017). Masks of Charos in Modern Greek Demotic Songs: Sources, Representations, and Context. Krakow: Jagiellonian University
Charon
Ancient forms of the Greek language
Doric has also passed down its aorist terminations into most verbs of Demotic Greek. By about the 6th century AD, the Koine had slowly metamorphosed
Ancient_Greek
Ancient Egyptian religious decrees
Demotic, and Greek, dark granite. Stone 2: Pithom Stele, No. II (CGC 50048), found in 1923 at Tell el-Maskhuta, hieroglyphs (front), 42 lines Demotic
Ptolemaic_synodal_decrees
US Egyptologist and academic
Janet H. (1986). Thus wrote ꜥOnchsheshonqy: an introductory grammar of Demotic (1st ed.). Chicago, Il: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Janet_Helen_Johnson
Ancient Egyptian solar goddess
season. The centers of her cult were at Medamud, El-Tod, and Thebes. A demotic manual from the Roman period with hymns to Raet has survived in fragments
Raet-Tawy
Writing system
non-alphabetic Egyptian hieroglyphs‡ 32nd c. BCE Hieratic‡ 32nd c. BCE Demotic‡ 7th c. BCE Meroitic 3rd c. BCE Proto-Sinaitic‡ 19th c. BCE Ugaritic 15th
Proto-Canaanite_alphabet
German Egyptologist (1827–1894)
at Cairo, producing numerous works and pioneering the decipherment of Demotic—the simplified script of the later Egyptian periods. Heinrich Karl Brugsch
Heinrich_Karl_Brugsch
1903 riot in Greece
of riots against the translation of the ancient tragedy Oresteia into Demotic Greek. The riots broke out in November 1903 and resulted in two deaths
Oresteia_riots
Queen of Greece from 1867 to 1913
Greek, but her contemporaries used either Katharevousa or the so-called Demotic version of Modern Greek. Katharevousa was a formal language that contained
Olga_Constantinovna_of_Russia
Vietnamese poet
chữ Nôm (Southern Script), which adapts Chinese characters for writing demotic Vietnamese. She is considered to be one of Vietnam's greatest classical
Hồ_Xuân_Hương
All Latin and Greek roots beginning with G
demagogue, deme, democracy, demographic, demography, demonym, demophobia, demotic, ecdemic, endemic, epidemic, epidemiology, pandemic den- ten each Latin
List of Greek and Latin roots in English/A–G
List_of_Greek_and_Latin_roots_in_English/A–G
Cyrillization, Romanization (Greeklish) and numerals Greek language (Demotic, Katharevousa) and dialects (Cappadocian, Cretan, Cypriot, Greco-Australian
Music_of_Greece
Sufi mystic and poet (1207–1273)
Teaching, and Poetry of Jalâl al-Din Rumi (2008): "Three poems have bits of demotic Greek; these have been identified and translated into French, along with
Rumi
3rd-century BC Egyptian historian and priest
to supplant demotic. The last hieroglyphic text was written by priests at the Temple of Isis at Philae in 394 CE, and the last known demotic text was inscribed
Manetho
Form of handwriting used in ancient Rome
and "s", which in turn are the basis for Gaelic type. Chamalières tablet Demotic (Egyptian) Hieratic Larzac tablet Vindolanda tablets "Roman Writing". Corinium
Roman_cursive
Numeral system predating modern Hindu-Arabic numerals
way similar to that attested in the development of Egyptian hieratic and demotic numerals, but this is not supported by any direct evidence. Likewise, the
Brahmi_numerals
Ethnic Greek subgroup
terms for many words that were replaced with Romance language ones in Demotic Greek. After centuries of Ottoman rule the Turkish language began to emerge
Cappadocian_Greeks
Association football club in Somalia
matches, the stadium also hosts a number of tournaments such as Somali Demotic Youth League and some of the Somali Division Leagues. Football in Somalia
Elman_FC
to papyri written in Koine Greek and Demotic Egyptian (no relation except in name, "popular," to modern demotic Greek). The most valuable and religious
Hebrew_and_Aramaic_papyri
American Egyptologist and professor of History
Late Period and the Graeco-Roman era. He had a particular interest in Demotic texts. Cruz-Uribe received his BA and PhD, both in Egyptology, from the
Eugene_Cruz-Uribe
Greek language in Australia
family Indo-European Hellenic Greek (disputed) Attic–Ionic Attic Koine Demotic Standard Modern Greek Australian Greek Early form Proto-Greek Writing system
Greek_in_Australia
Official anthem for the Olympic Games
a choral cantata by opera composer Spyridon Samaras (1861–1917), with Demotic Greek lyrics by Greek poet Kostis Palamas. Both poet and composer were
Olympic_Hymn
Greek minority in Turkey
Distribution of Anatolian Greeks in 1910. Demotic Greek speakers in yellow. Pontic in orange. Cappadocian Greek in green. Shaded regions do not indicate
Greeks_in_Turkey
Descendants of Greek colonists on the Black Sea and Azov Sea coasts
Rumaiic poetic language for his work. Promoting the Rumaiic, as against the Demotic Greek of Greece, was in effect a way of promoting the separate identity
Greeks_in_Russia_and_Ukraine
Possible Egyptian Twenty-ninth Dynasty pharaoh
Demotic Chronicle: His son (i.e. of Nepherites I) was allowed to succeed him. (But) a short time was vouchsafed to him... Nevertheless, the Demotic Chronicle
Muthis
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a.
Belonging to, or used in, a country; native; domestic; popular; common; -- said especially of the written characters employed by the common people of ancient Egypt, in distinction from the hieroglyphics. See Demotic.
a.
Of or pertaining to the people; popular; common.
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