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demotic: see hieroglyphic hieroglyphic [Gr.,=priestly carving], type of writing used in ancient Egypt. Similar pictographic styles of Crete, Asia Minor, and Central America and Mexico are also called hieroglyphics (see Minoan civilization; Anatolian languages; Maya; Aztec).
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demotic
1. of or relating to a simplified form of hieroglyphics used in ancient Egypt by the ordinary literate class outside the priesthood
2. the demotic script of ancient Egypt


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Concentrating on elderly countrymen who had lived all their life in the same area, the Leeds team caught the end of an era of demotic speech before the mass post-war migrations.
Stanley Ellis; OBITUARY by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
They killed three foreign soldiers in Mir-Mandab area of Greshk and five demotic law enforcers in Nadali district, he claimed.
Five militants killed in Helmand by Pajhwok Afghan News (Kabul, Afghanistan)
When the Canopy Stones were discovered in Kom El Hesn, we found out that the hieroglyphic, demotic and Greek texts were the same as the ones carved on the Rosetta Stone, but with the only difference that the Canopy Stones were intact, said El Shammaa.
For your information, there's more than one Rosetta Stone, says ... by Daily News Egypt (Egypt)
 
 
 
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